Annasaheb Dange College of
Engineering and Technology,
Ashta
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Course Name : Kinematics of Machines
Course Code:2MEPC202
Presentation by
A. M. Pirjade
Unit No. 5 Gear Trains
❖ What is Gear Train ?
Definition: When two gears are made to
mesh with each other to transmit the power
from one shaft to another shaft. Such a
combination of gears is called as Gear train.
❖ Which gear train to be used and when?
Types of Gear Trains
Following are the types of Gear Trains:
1) Simple Gear Train
2) Compound Gear Train
3) Reverted Gear Train
4) Epicyclic Gear Train
Simple Gear Train
❖Definition: When there is only one gear mounted on a single shaft then
the combination of gears is called as Simple Gear Train.
Let
N1 = Speed of gear 1 ( Driver ) in r.p.m.
N2= Speed of gear 2 ( Driven or follower )
in r.p.m
T1 = Number of teeth on gear 1
T2= Number of teeth on gear 2
Velocity Ratio = N2/N1 = T1/T2
Sometimes the distance between two shafts is very large, then the motion between one shaft
to another shaft may be transmitted by following two methods:
1) By providing large sized gear, 2) By providing one or more intermediate gears.
Velocity ratio of gear train shown in Fig. (b): =
❖ Significance of odd and even numbers of intermediate gears:
1) To bridge over the distance between shafts whenever distance between shafts is
very large.
2) To obtain the desired motion of driven gear.
Compound gear Train
• Definition: When there are more than one gear on a shaft then the gear train is called
as Compound gear train.
N1 = Speed of gear 1 ( Driver ) in r.p.m.
T1= Number of teeth on gear 1( Driver ) in r.p.m
As N2 = N3 and N4 = N5
Advantages of Compound gears
1) To bridge over the distance between driver and driven.
2) To change the velocity ratio from 1 to 7
Reverted Gear Train
❖ Definition: It is the gear train in which the axis of first gear and axis of the
last gear are co-axial.
• N1 = Speed of gear 1 ( Driver ) in r.p.m.
• T1= Number of teeth on gear 1
• r1 = Pitch circle radius of gear 1 in mm
r2, r3,r4= Pitch circle radius of respective gears
As the distance between the centre's of the shafts of gears 1 and 2 as well as 3
and 4 is same there fore
r1 + r2 = r3 + r4 OR
Epicyclic Gear Train
❖Definition: A simple epicyclic gear train is shown in Fig. where a gear A
and the arm C have a common axis of rotation O1 and gear B meshes
with gear gear A and rotate about an axis O2. If arm C is fixed then the
gear train is simple and A drives the gear B or vice – versa. But if gear A
is fixed and arm C is rotated about the centre O1 then the gear B is
forced to rotate upon and around gear A. Such a motion is called as
Epicyclic motion and the gear train is called Epicyclic gear train. ( Epi.
means upon and cyclic means around ).
Velocity Ratio =
Which is not possible in Epicyclic gear train as gear
A is fixed = 0.
There fore to calculate the motion of each elements
from the given Epicyclic gear train Tabular Method
is used.
Tabular Method
Let
When the arm is fixed the axes of both the gears will be fixed
relative to each other. Then the gear train will become Simple
gear train.
When gear A makes one revolution anticlockwise then the
gear B makes revolutions clockwise. Assuming the
anticlockwise positive and clockwise negative then gear A
makes +1 revolution and gear B makes - revolutions.
Therefore
Tabular Method
Compound Epicyclic Gear Train
Compound Epicyclic Gear Train
Problem : An Epicyclic gear train consisits of three gears A, B and C as shown in Fig.. The gear
A has 72 internal teeth and gear C has 32 external teeth. The gear B meshes with gear A and C
and is carried on an arm EF which rotates about centre of A at 18 r.p.m. If the gear A is fixed ,
determine the speed of gear B and C.
Problem: An Epicyclic gear train is arranged as shown in Fig.. How many revolutions does the
arm, to which the pinions B and C are attached, make: 1) When A makes one revolution
clockwise and D makes half a revolution anticlockwise, and 2) when A makes one revolution
clockwise and D is stationary. The number of teeth on the gears A and D are 40 and 90
respectively.
An internal wheel B with 80 teeth is keyed to a shaft F. A fixed internal wheel C with 82 teeth is concentric
with B. A compound wheel D-E gears with the two internal wheels ;D has 28 teeth and gears with C while E
gears with B. The compound wheels revolve freely on a pin which projects from a disc keyed to a shaft A
co-axial with F. If the wheels have the same pitch and the shaft A makes 800 r.p.m., what is the speed of the
shaft F ?
dB = dC – (dD – dE ) dE = dB + dD – dC
TE = TB + TD – TC = 80 + 28 – 82 = 26
Fig. shows the compound epicyclic gear train. Wheels A, D and E are free to roatate independently on
spindle O, while B and C are compound and rotate together on spindle P, on the end of arm OP. All the
teeth on different wheels have the same module. A has 12 teeth, B has 30 teeth and C has 14 teeth cut
externally. Find the number of teeth on wheels D and E which are cut internally. If wheel A is driven
clockwise at 1 r. p. s. while D driven clockwise at 5 r. p. s. . Determine the magnitude and direction of the
angular velocities of arm OP and wheel E.
Torques in Epicyclic Gear Train
