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“Performance Evaluation of a
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Pitting fatigue and wear account for
approximately 66% of gearbox failures.
Numerous technologies have been developed to
increase the service life of gears such as new
designs, steel alloys, machining techniques,
metallurgical treatments, and surface finishing
techniques. Still, gear manufacturers are being
driven to achieve not only increased cycle life,
but also to do so at ever-higher operating loads.
This paper, based on a patented commercial
technology known as the REM® Process1,
predicts that chemically accelerated vibratory
finishing using non-abrasive media is capable of
meeting the performance goals of gear
manufacturers by producing Isotropic
Superfinished (ISF) gears. Rolling/Sliding
Contact Fatigue (R/SCF) testing predicts
performance improvements of 16-fold in cycle
life while at increasing operating loads (12.5%)
without the re-engineering of existing gear
systems.
In this paper, “ISF” will refer to a surface
that exhibits a non-directional pattern having
approximately a roughness average (Ra) of
1.5 μin. produced by chemically accelerated
vibratory finishing using non-abrasive
media1.