The requirement for higher energy density transmissions (lower weight) in helicopters has lead to the development of the Split Torque Gearbox (STG) to replace the traditionally planetary gearbox by the drive drain designer. This may pose a challenge for the current gear analysis methods used in Health and Monitoring Systems (HUMS). Gear analysis uses time synchronous averages to separates in fr...

An increase in gear ratio of the limb extensor muscles during joint extension has been suggested to be a mechanism that facilitates optimal power production by skeletal muscles. The objectives of this study were to: (1) measure gear ratios at the wrist, elbow, shoulder, ankle, knee, and hip joints of jumping dogs, (2) compute the work performed by each of these joints, and (3) measure muscle sh...

This paper describes a multi-disciplinary damage detection methodology that can aid in detecting and diagnosing a damage in a given structural system, not limited to the example of a rotating gear presented here. Damage detection is performed on the gear stress data corresponding to the steady state conditions. The normal and damage data are generated by a finitedifference solution of elastodyn...

Fishers have been complaining about the effects of bottom trawl gear on the marine environment since at least the 14th century. Trawl gear affects the environment in both direct and indirect ways. Direct effects include scraping and ploughing of the substrate, sediment resuspension, destruction of benthos, and dumping of processing waste. Indirect effects include post-fishing mortality and long...

In this paper, an integrated approach for gear health prognostics using particle filters is presented. The presented method effectively addresses the issues in applying particle filters to gear health prognostics by integrating several new components into a particle filter: (1) data mining based techniques to effectively define the degradation state transition and measurement functions using a ...

Gears are commonly used for transmitting power. They develop high stress concentration at the root and the point of contact. The repeated stressing on the fillets causes the fatigue failure of gear tooth. The main objective of this study is to add different shaped holes to reduce stress concentration. A finite element model of Spur gear with a segment of three teeth is considered for analysis a...

This paper proposes a new electrically controlled magnetic variable-speed gearing (EC-MVSG) machine, which is capable of providing controllable gear ratios for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications. The key design feature involves the adoption of a magnetic gearing structure and acceptance of the memory machine flux-mnemonic concept. Hence, the proposed machine can not only offer a gear-sh...

In order to improve the validity and accuracy of fault diagnosis on mechanical equipment, this study applies fuzzy nearness approach by adjusting the traditional formulations. Besides, it points out the disadvantages in fault diagnosis of traditional nearness approach based on experimental data of gear transmission. A fuzzy nearness functionbased model is constructed to execute the fault diagno...

Manufacturing process of gear is fairly complicated due to the presence of various simultaneous motions of the cutter and the job. In this paper, an attempt is made to generate meaningful design data for a spur gear and the corresponding rack form cutter necessary for the manufacturing process. Using these information, solid models for the cutter and blank are developed and finally gear-manufac...

This paper presents reconfigurable control system for ship coursechanging/keeping. Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is used to identify a steering gear subsystem (actuator) in order to build an accurate reference model for the fault detection in this non-linear component. The proposed control system uses a compensator for reducing the loss of the control performance produced by fau...