Advances in Gear Theory and Gear Cutting Tool Design

Dr. Stephen P. Radzevich (editor) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering.  He received the M.Sc. (1976), the Ph.D. (1982), and the Dr.(Eng)Sc. (1991) – all in mechanical engineering.  He authored over 45 monographs, handbooks, and textbooks.  He also authored and co-authored about 350 scientific papers and holds over 260 patents on invention in the field, both, USA patents and international patents. Dr. Michael Storchak (editor) is a senior researcher of Mechanical Engineering. He received the Dipl.-Eng. in 1974 and the Dr.-Eng. (Ph.D.) in 1984, both in mechanical engineering, and the Dr. Sc. degree (1994) in Manufacturing Engineering.  Dr. Storchak has authored a monograph, and over 150 scientific papers published in topnotch international journals.  He also holds over 50 patents on inventions.

• Fundamental Laws of Gearing.- On the Key Mistake in Generating Envelopes to a Family of Curves and Surfaces: A Special Case of Kinematics of Enveloping – Rolling Motion.- Meshing limit line of Archimedes worm drive.- Sinusoidal Gears and a New Method of Their Cutting.- Design of technological systems for gear finishing.- Generalized Unified Model for Synthesis of Links of Parallel-Axes Gear Systems.- Gear cutting with disc-shaped milling cutters.- Additive Technologies and Gradient Materials for Plastic Gear Production.- Quality Characteristics of Gearing.- Multi-parameter gear drives and gear variators (CVTs).- Calculation of Gear Trains for Transmission Systems of Mobile Vehicles.- Analysis of Structures of Automatic Split-Power Gear Transmissions (CVTs).- Kinematics, statics and dynamics of complex and coupled cylindrical planetary gears.- Carefully, Scrupulously, Responsibly (in memoriam of Professor Dmitriy Babichev).- Appendices.