Mechanical transmissions

• Gears: design methods, dynamic effects, crack path propagation, dynamic and modal analysis.
• Spline couplings: wear damage, fretting wear and fretting fatigue, misalignment loads (tilting moment/friction moment), stiffness.
• Bearings: planer gear bearings, geared bearings, high speed bearings, failure models.
• Threaded joints: investigation about hybrid connections (metal / non-metal).
• Ball screws: design methods, test rig development.
• Free wheels: static and dynamic behaviour, contact analysis, static and dynamic stiffness.