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ankitthappa
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Gear Box Design

12/11/2006 11:47 AM

Dear sirs

I am working in engineering department and my company wants to start gear box designing and manufacturing. Please guide me on few things

1) Which books I should refer on transmission design (gear box)?

2) What are the general problem incured in a gear box design?

3)Which analysis and design software I should use?

I HAVE STARTED STUDYING A GEAR BOX RIGHT NOW

I hope you all can give me good inputs on this
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Re: Gear Box Design

12/11/2006 10:56 PM

1.Good book for gear box design is Handbook of Gear design by

Durley & Doodley (MC Graw hill publisher)

2.You must first know what power it should transmit & Speed Ratios.Gothru Above book.
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Re: Gear Box Design

12/11/2006 11:25 PM

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22gearbox+design%22+%2Bhandbook&spell=1

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jstolaruk
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12/11/2006 11:28 PM

And an excellent reference for gear mechanics is Analytical Mechanics of Gears by Earle Buckingham ISBN 0-486-65712-4. 540 pages of everything you'd ever want and not want to know about gears.
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Anonymous Poster
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Re: Gear Box Design

12/12/2006 3:17 AM

regarding your third ques.

in my opinion you should check Geartrax & Solidworks.

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Re: Gear Box Design

12/12/2006 10:28 AM

Try UTS http://www.uts.com/OnLineCatalog.asp?ItemGroupID=600
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Gabriel
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Re: Gear Box Design

12/12/2006 6:53 PM

Hi: there is a software: KISSSoft. It is not very hard to learn how to use it and give correction factors, different methodes of calculation and other features.

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Gabriel, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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