T. Figlus, M. Stańczyk, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, Katowice, Poland The paper presents research aimed at diagnosing early cases of wear of gears tooth surface in the gearbox based on measurements of vibration signals and their processing using the wavelet packet transform. Analysis concerned the vibration signals recorded in a test bench experiment, during whic...

Gear drives are one of the most widely used transmission system in many machinery. Sound signals of a rotating machine contain the dynamic information about its health conditions. Not much information available in the literature reporting suitability of sound signals for fault diagnosis applications. Maximum numbers of literature are based on FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) analysis and have its o...

Targeting an accurate and realistic simulation of the gear hobbing process, we present an effective and factual approximation based on three-dimensional computer-aided design. Hobbing kinematics is directly applied in one gear gap. Each generating position formulates a spatial surface path which bounds its penetrating volume into the workpiece. The three-dimensional surface paths generated from...

The present hydraulic variable-pitch mechanism of wind turbine uses three hydraulic cylinders to drive three crank and connecting rod mechanisms respectively; the blades are moved with the cranks. The hydraulic variable-pitch mechanism has complex structure, occupies a lot of space and its maintenance is trouble. In order to make up for the shortcomings of hydraulic cylinder variable-pitch syst...

We study three dimensional parametric agile design of gears and related software platforms in terms of: parameterization, modularization, and the software being easy to use, expand and maintain. We base our study on SolidWorks platform, aiming to generate 3-D solid models of gears automatically in terms of: i) inputting parameters to improve the modeling speed, ii) build up foundations for stru...

763 The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 212 No. 7 763–766 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201512019 Introduction Mechanical amplification is something we experience every day, in the form of gears, pulleys, and levers. While climbing a hill on a bicycle, for instance, shifting gears increases the force on the wheels while limiting the pressure required on the pedals. Howe...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of super finishing on gear acceleration and noise level. Many researchers [1-13] have studied the gear dynamic models to study the effect of various parameters on gear dynamics. A 6DOF model is developed and experimental studies were conducted. In this study, the effects of super finishing [14, 15] on gear acceleration and noise level were evaluat...

Acoustic intensity measurements were conducted on a simple spur gear transmission in a welded steel housing. The radiation efficiency of the housing was computed from the intensity data for the first three harmonics of mesh frequency. Finite element and boundary element methods (FEM/BEM) were used jointly to model acoustics and dynamics of the top plate of the housing. For a simply supported el...