Short description:

This new edition of Gear Cutting Tools has been updated with revised chapters and illustrations as well as additional, new material with the aim to provide a systematic and comprehensive discussion on modern designs, kinematics, and cutting geometry of gear cutting tools.

Long description:

This new edition of Gear-Cutting Tools has been updated with revised chapters and illustrations as well as additional, new material with the aim to provide a systematic and comprehensive discussion on modern designs, kinematics, and cutting geometry of gear-cutting tools.

This book presents the DG/K-based method of surface generation?a practical mathematical method for designing gearcutting tools with optimal parameters. The text addresses the evolution of gear-cutting tools and scientific classification for all types of gear machining meshes before discussing optimal cutting tool designs. Designs currently used and those being planned are covered, and the approach allows for the development of scientific predictions and optimal designs. Solutions appear in analytical form and/or graphical form, with a wealth of new figures added, and new appendices offer additional data for readers.

This is an essential reading for engineers who work in the field of gear-cutting, especially those involved in the manufacturing of autos, aircraft, agriculture machines, and metal-cutting machines. This book would also be relevant to various mechanical engineering courses for graduate students, such as machine elements, machine and mechanism science, and theory of machines and mechanisms.

Table of Contents:

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 Mesh
18. 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 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       
Bibliography    
Index