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Materials Matter: Comparing Surface Roughness Parameters

Effective gear design must account for a range of potential failure modes. As discussed in previous Materials Matter columns, gear failure modes can be fatigue-based and progressive (such as micropitting) or sudden (such as scuffing).

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Materials Matter: Lambda Ratio

The lambda ratio was originally developed to quantify the quality of lubricant operating regimes relative to bearing performance.

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Materials Matter: Micropitting

Micropitting is a gear failure mode that typically occurs when higher contact stresses are applied to hardened gear teeth. Unlike most other failure modes, micropitting does not always proceed to component failure if left unaddressed.

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Materials Matter: Scuffing

Gear meshing is one of the most complex areas of study in tribology. Meshing consists of both sliding and rolling motion and can be affected by a number of other operating parameters.

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Materials Matter: Wind Turbine Gear Repair

Wind turbine gearbox durability has improved significantly over the past ten years. The days of early gearbox failure due to epidemic micropitting are largely in the past.

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Materials Matter: Power Density and Isotropic Superfinishing

Power density, also described as load-carrying capacity, is simply the amount of load that can be safely transferred by a gear or other power transfer component without failure.

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Materials Matter: Roughness Measurement of Precision Gear Teeth

Over the past 25 years, industries such as power generation, aerospace, automotive, and others have continuously increased the operational demands of gearboxes.

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Materials Matter: Gear Surfaces and Operational Performance

In the search for increased performance and durability, gear and bearing design has sought to make use of improved steel grades combined with enhanced heat treatment techniques.

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Materials Matter: Isotropic Superfinishing

Increasingly stringent operational requirements from customers coupled with enhanced global technical standards have heightened the focus of gear designers on a wide array of parameters that historically would have been of secondary consideration; one such design parameter is surface finish.

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Materials Matter: Optimizing Performance with Surface Finish and Lubrication

Materials and manufacturing processes have evolved to generate lighter, stronger, and more robust components to meet the demand for more efficient, highly loaded mechanical systems.

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Materials Matter: The Gear Drawing Roughness Specification

In the January Materials Matter column, “Roughness Measurement of Precision Gear Teeth,” the importance of accurate and repeatable roughness measurement of precision gear teeth flanks was explained.

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Superfinishing and its Effect on Micropitting

Micropitting is a prominent failure mechanism for both highly stressed case carburized gears and bearings that operate consistently in low speed, low load environments where boundary conditions predominate.