Internal gear strains and load sharing in planetary transmissions: Model and experiments

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 0726021-07260210

  Singh, Avinash ^a   Kahraman, Ahmet ^b   Ligata, Haris ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FORECASTING; GEARS;

GEAR SYSTEM ANALYSIS MODULES; INTERNAL GEAR; LOAD SHARING; OUTER DIAMETERS; PLANETARY TRANSMISSION; POSITION ERRORS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOOTH FILLETS; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMISSION MODEL;

STRAIN;

EID: 67349187104     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2890110     Document Type: Article

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