Gear Cutting Tools

Dr. Stephen P. Radzevich is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. He received his M.Sc. in 1976, Ph.D. in 1982, and Dr.(Eng)Sc. in 1991, all in mechanical engineering. Dr. Radzevich has extensive industrial experience in gear design and manufacture. He has developed numerous software packages dealing with computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided machining (CAM) of precise gear finishing for a variety of industrial sponsors. His main research interest is Kinematic Geometry of Part Surface Generation, particularly with a particular focus on precision gear design, high-power-density gear trains, torque share in multi-flow gear trains, design of special purpose gear cutting/finishing tools, and design and machine (finish) of precision gears for low-noise and noiseless transmissions of cars, light trucks and so on. Dr. Radzevich has spent over 40 years developing software, hardware and other processes for gear design and optimization. Besides his work for industry, he trains engineering students at universities and gear engineers in companies.

SECTION I: Basics

1. Gears: Geometry of Tooth Flanks
2. Principal Kinematics of Gear-Machining Operation
3. Kinematics of Continuous-Indexing Methods of Gear-Machining Operations

SECTION II: Form Gear-Cutting Tools

4. Gear Broaching Tools
5. End Mill Gear Cutters
6. Disk-Type Mill Gear Cutters
7. Non-Traditional Methods of Gear Machining by Form Cutting Tools

SECTION III: Cutting Tools for Continuous-Indexing Methods of Generation of Gear Teeth
SUBSECTION III-A: Parallel-Axes Gear Machining Mesh

8. Rack Cutters for Planing Spur and Helical Gears
9. Gear Shaper Cutters I: External Gear Machining Mesh
10. Gear Shaper Cutters II: Internal Gear Machining Mesh

SECTION III-B: Intersected-Axes Gear Machining Mesh
SUBSECTION III-B: Intersected-Axes Gear Machining Mesh

11. Gear Shapers Cutters with Tilted Axis of Rotation
12. Gear Cutting Tools for Machining Bevel Gears
13. Gear Shaper Cutters Having Tilted Axis of Rotation: Internal Gear Machining Mesh

SUBSECTION III-C: Crossed-Axes Gear Machining Mesh
PART III-C.1: Design of Geat-Cutting Tools: External Gear Machining Mesh
14. Generating Surface of Gear-Cutting Tool
15. Hobs for Machining Gears
16. Gear Shaving Cutters
17. Examples of Implementation of the Classification of the Gear Machining Meshes

PART III-C_2: Quasi-Planar Gear Machining Mesh18. Gear-Cutting Tools for Machining Bevel Gears

PART III-C_3: Internal Gear Machining Mesh
19. Gear-Cutting Tools with an Enveloping Generating Surface
20. Gear-Cutting Tools for Machining Internal Gears

21. On the Lack of Understanding of the Scientific Theory of Gearing by the Majority of Gear Scientists and Engineers
22. Brief Notes on the History of Methods of Machining Gears and of Design of Gear Cutting Tools

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Elements of Vector Calculus

Appendix B: Elements of Differential Geometry of Surfaces

Appendix C: Change of Surface Parameters

Appendix D: Applied Coordinate Systems and Linear Transformations

Appendix E: Contact Geometry of Gear and Mating Pinion Tooth Flanks

Appendix F: The Closest Distance of Approach of Tooth Flanks of a Gear and a Mating Pinion

Appendix G: Engineering Formulae for Specification of Gear Tooth Flank

Appendix H: On the Inadequacy of the Terms Wildhaber-Novikov Gearing, and W-N Gearing

Notation
References
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