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Materials Matter: Isotropic Superfinishing

Posted by on Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 in

Increasingly stringent operational requirements from customers coupled with enhanced global technical standards have heightened the focus of gear designers on a wide array of parameters that historically would have been of secondary consideration; on...

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Comparative Corrosion Characteristics of Ground and Superfinished Gear Steels

Posted by on Friday, November 15th, 2013 in

The described effort was undertaken to assess the impact of the isotropic superfinishing (ISF®) process on the corrosion resistance of a variety of gear steels....

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The Capacity of Superfinished Vehicle Components to Increase Fuel Economy

Posted by on Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 in

The lubricant industry is emphasizing the use of low-viscosity lubricants to increase fuel economy. Fuel mileage increases as high as 8% are claimed when conventional engine and driveline lubricants are replaced with new generation products....

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Isotropic Superfinishing of S-76C+ Main Transmission Gears

Posted by on Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 in

Isotropic Superfinishing is a chemically accelerated vibratory finishing process that is capable of generating surface finishes with an Arithmetic Mean Roughness (Ra)< 3 min....

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