TSU MECHATRONICS
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS I
HOMEWORK
Complete the table with the information asked about gears:
Gear Main Advantages Disadvantages Main Applications
type characteristics
Spur >They have straight and > They offer constant > They are slow-speed >Power plant.
straight teeth parallel to velocity ratio. gears. >Marine engines.
gears
the shaft. >Are highly reliable. >They can’t transfer >Metal cutting machine.
> They are simplest. power between non-
parallel shafts.
Helical >The teeth on helical gears >They have a better >The resultant thrust >Printing industries
are cut at an angle to the teeth grip than spur along the axis of the >Rolling mil
gears
face of the gear. gears. gear. >Fertilizer industries
>If the angles of the gear >Have excellent low > The efficiency is less.
teeth are correct, they can noise and carry higher
be mounted on load.
perpendicular shafts.
Bevel >Have a conical shape. >This gear makes it >Must be precisely >Agriculture
>Are used to transmit possible to charge the mounted. >Bottling
gears
forces between two operating angle. >The shafts’ bearings >Hand drill
intersecting axes at a >Differing of the number must be capable of >Steering
point. of teeth on each wheel supporting significant
allows mechanical forces.
advantage to be
changed.
Worm > Not reversible system >Rotation is transferred >The material is >Gate control
> Groove of worm meshes through two different expensive. mechanism
gears
with gear teeth. axis of rotation. >Worm drives have high >Lifts
>They are self-locking. power losses. >Presses
>They occupy less space. >Speed reducer
Rack and >Transform rotational >Cheap >Can only work with >Require significant
motion of the pinion into >Compact certain levels of friction. lubrication.
pinion
bidirectional rectilinear >Robust >Susceptible to wear.
translational motion of the
rack.
Elaboró:
Dra. Gali Aleksandra Beltrán Zhizhko
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