Technical Papers
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Report of the Condition of a General Electric Transportation Systems Gearbox
2 GearboxDescription The DOE began installing a General Electric (GE) 1.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine at its National Wind Technology Center...
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A Comparison of Surface Roughness Measurement Methods for Gear Tooth Working Surfaces
1 Introduction Surface roughness is a critical parameter for gears operating under a variety of conditions. It directly influencesfrictionandcontacttemperature,andthereforehasanimpactonvariousfailuremodessuchas macropitting, micropitting,...
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Surface Treatment of Powder-Bed Fusion Additive Manufactured Metals for Improved Fatigue Life
Introduction The high-cycle fatigue (HCF) properties of metallic materials made by additive manufacturing (AM) have received considerable recent interest (Ref...
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AH-64 Loss of Lubrication Study: Test of Isotropic Superfinished AH-64 (Apache) Engine Nose Gearbox Without Black Oxide Coating
INTRODUCTION Isotropic Superfinish (ISF*) technology applied to gears has become the benchmark for surface finishing of rotorcraft gearing. The performance...
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Future Advanced Rotorcraft Drive System (FARDS) Full Scale Gearbox Demonstration
The eighteen technologies include the following: Gear Technologies 1. C64 gear steel material 2. Cavitation peening 3. Optimized gear teeth...
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Gear Repair for Helicopters and Wind Turbines via Isotropic Superfinishing
Abral = a proprietary, abrasive vibratory finishing process AEO = all engines operative OEI = one engine inoperative CAVF =...
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Gear Corrosion During the Manufacturing Process
Crevice corrosion Crevice corrosion is a localized form of corrosion that occurs in narrow openings or spaces where the localized...
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High Speed, Automatable Superfinishing of Rear-Axle Hypoid Gears
INTRODUCTION Only a very brief description of superfinishing will be presented here since it is discussed in detail elsewhere.3,4,5 The process...
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The Effect of Superfinishing on Gear Micropitting, Part II
Experimental Gear design The gears used were the standard FZG- C type gears for micropitting testing. Table 1 gives the...
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A Novel Approach to the Refurbishment of Wind Turbine Gears
Background Wind turbine gears experience several types of repairable damage including micropitting or “gray staining”, abrasive wear, foreign object damage...
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Superfinishing and its Effect on Micropitting
[caption id="attachment_8811" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Figure1. Illustrates the progressive levelling effect of isotropic finishing processes.[/caption] Chemically accelerated vibratory finishing is...
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The Impact of Surface Condition and Lubricant on Gear Tooth Friction
The experimental effort is conducted on a high speed, power re-circulating (PC), gear test rig, which had been specially instrumented...