IMPROVING THE RELIABILITY OF THE GEAR TRANSMISSION ACCORDING TO THE TRIBOLOGICAL PROCESSES.

The authors developed a complex program to evaluate the scuffing risk in gear transmissions. The program include evaluation of the film thickness between the flanks of the teeth, evaluation of the real pressure according to the roughness and determination of the local gear scuffing criterion (SL). The program was validated by experiments on a two disk machine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]