Gear Fundamentals Reverse Engineering - July/August 1991
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The article "Gear Fundamentals Reverse Engineering" appeared in the July/August 1991 issue of Gear Technology.
Summary
Whether gear engineers have to replace an old gear which is worn out, find out what a gear's geometry is after heat treatment distortion, or just find out parameters of gears made by a competitor, sometimes they are challenged with a need to determine the geometry of unknown gears. Depending on the degree of accuracy required, a variety of techniques are available for determining the accuracy of an unknown gear. If a high degree of precision is important, a gear inspection device has to be used to verify the results. Frequently, several trial-and-error attempts are made before the results reach the degree of precision required.
Keywords
reverse engineering, inspection, calculations, basics, gear fundamentals
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