Book description
Building on the first edition published in 1995 this new edition of
Kinematic Geometry of Gearing has been extensively revised and updated
with new and original material. This includes the methodology for
general tooth forms, radius of torsure', cylinder of osculation, and
cylindroid of torsure; the author has also completely reworked the '3
laws of gearing', the first law re-written to better parallel the
existing 'Law of Gearing” as pioneered by Leonard Euler, expanded from
Euler's original law to encompass non-circular gears and hypoid gears,
the 2nd law of gearing describing a unique relation between gear sizes,
and the 3rd law completely reworked from its original form to uniquely
describe a limiting condition on curvature between gear teeth, with new
relations for gear efficiency are presented based on the kinematics of
general toothed wheels in mesh. There is also a completely new chapter
on gear vibration load factor and impact.
Progressing from the fundamentals of geometry to construction of gear
geometry and application, Kinematic Geometry of Gearing presents a
generalized approach for the integrated design and manufacture of gear
pairs, cams and all other types of toothed/motion/force transmission
mechanisms using computer implementation based on algebraic geometry.
David B Dooner
, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and Ali A Seireg,
University of Wisconsin at Madison and University of Florida at
Gainesville, USA
David B Dooner
is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He received his doctorate from the
University of Florida at Gainesville in 1991 where he remained as a
Post-Doctoral Fellow from 1991-1994. He worked at the General Motors
Gear Center in 1989 and was a visiting scientist at the Mechanical
Sciences Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow
in 1992.
