Annotation Rakhit wants other engineers to avoid the considerable trouble he had understanding the art of gear heat treatment when he first embarked on a career in gear design and manufacturing. He explains how heat treating and gears made of some kinds of steel gives the gears high geometric accuracy, but can also distort them and raise the cost of manufacturing, so a gear engineer needs to excel in manufacturing, lubrication, life and failure analysis, and machine design as well as design. He presents a case history of each successful gear heat treatment process that provide information on the quality of gear that can be expected with the proper control of material and processes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

All of the critical technical aspects of gear materials technology are addressed in this new reference work. Gear Materials, Properties, and Manufacture is intended for gear metallurgists and materials specialists, manufacturing engineers, lubrication technologists, and analysts concerned with gear failures who seek a better understanding of gear performance and gear life. This volume complements other gear texts that emphasize the design, geometry, and theory of gears. The coverage begins with an overview of the various types of gears used, important gear terminology, applied stresses and strength requirements associated with gears, and lubrication and wear. This is followed by in-depth treatment of metallic (ferrous and nonferrous alloys) and plastic gear materials. Emphasis is on the properties of carburized steels, the material of choice for high-performance power transmission gearing.

One of two self-contained volumes belonging to the newly revised Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition, this book focuses on process design, equipment, and testing used in steel heat treatment. Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design presents the classical perspectives that form the basis of heat treatment processes while

The article contains material concerning the effect of material and chemical-heat treatment of gears on their supporting power and life. Some of the items discussed are steel gears and selection of methods of their heat and chemical-heat treatment; volume hardening of gears, carburization and case-hardening of gears with martempering, effect of chemical composition of steel on the supporting power of case-hardened and hardened gears, effect of properties of the case-hardened layer and core on supporting power, effect of thickness of case-hardened layer on supporting power, nitriding gears, cyaniding and carbonitriding gears, surface hardening of gear teeth, materials used for manufacture of gears, etc. (Author).

Annotation Writing for the floor personnel of induction heat treating facilities, Haimbaugh (personnel trainer, Induction Heat Training Corp.) ties in the metallurgy, theory and practice of commercial induction heat treating. After explanations of basic theory, chapters deal with production aspects of induction, review and present a process of analysis of applications, discuss standards and inspection, explains the identification and resolution of problems found with induction hardened parts, and explores quality control and maintenance. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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