Simulating fatigue crack growth in spiral bevel gears

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-76

  Spievak, Lisa E ^a   Wawrzynek, Paul A ^a   Ingraffea, Anthony R ^a   Lewicki, David G ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GEAR TEETH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NON-PROPORTIONAL LOADS; SPIRAL BEVEL GEARS;

BEVEL GEARS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FATIGUE; FATIGUE CRACK; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GEAR;

EID: 0034746198     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(00)00089-8     Document Type: Article

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