Author : B.Venkatesh , S.V.Prabhakar Vattikuti , S.Deva Prasad ,V .Kamala and A.M.K.Prasad

Global competitive business market had brought increasing awareness to optimize the gear design. Gears have the advantage over friction and belt drives in that they are positive drive, a feature which most of the machine tools require, since exact speed ratios are essential. The design and manufacture of precision cut gears, made from materials of high strength, have made it possible to produce gears which are capable of transmitting extremely large loads at extremely high circumferential speeds with very little noise, vibration and other undesirable aspects of gear drives. The present work is to focus on investigating the combined effect of gear parameters on tangential force and dynamic tooth load of helical gear.

Keywords: Buckingham equation, Helical gear design, Optimal design, Tangential force, Dynamic tooth load.

Article published in International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Sciences 2014, Special Issue-2 (Feb 2014)