From airplanes to cars to snowmobiles to washing machines, gears play a vital role in mechanical design. Elementary in concept, they can wreak havoc if designed wrong. To get the design right and ...

Designing a functionally interchangeable gear requires accounting for a number of subtle factors beyond pure geometry.

Design engineers face continuous pressure to enhance product performance while driving down costs. For many devices, converting metal components to plastic is an effective way of achieving both goals.

In the first of this two-part series, we explored how new computer-based modeling of geared systems is allowing the design of gear microgeometry for durability and lower noise, vibration, and ...

Gears make the industrial world go ’round. And RIT engineering faculty and doctoral students are working to keep them moving efficiently. Gears transmit the motion necessary to operate the equipment ...