Bevel Gear Design and Material Selection

Abstract

Computer technology has touched all areas of today’s life, impacting how we obtain railway tickets, shop online and receive medical advice from remote location. Computer-based design analysis is nowadays a common activity in most development projects. Traditionally, the design field has been identified with particular end products, e.g., mechanical design, electrical design, ship design. In these fields, design work is largely based on specific techniques to foster certain product characteristics and principles The scope of this work includes, to design, to model the bevel gear, to select gear materials, to detailed factor safety in design and to analysis bevel gears. Gears are toothed elements that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. Gears are generally rugged and durable and their power transmission efficiency is as high as 98%. Gears are usually more costly than chains and belts. Bevel gears are gears where the axes of the two shafts intersect and the tooth bearing faces of the gears themselves are conically shaped. Bevel gears are most often mounted on shafts that are 90 degrees apart, but can be designed to work at other angles as well. The pitch surface of bevel gears is a cone. Two bevel gears in mesh is known as bevel on and gear are to be determined from the shaft angle, i.e., the angle between the intersecting shafts. The bevel gear has many diverse applications such as locomotives, marine applications, automobiles, printing presses, cooling towers, power plants, steel plants, railway track inspection machines, etc.