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Title: Method of testing gear wheels in impact bending

Journal Article · · Metal Science and Heat Treatment
OSTI ID:96784

Chemicothermal treatment processes are widely used in engineering to improve the working lives of important components, of which the most common is nitrocementation. That process has been applied at the Volga Automobile Plant mainly to sprockets in gear transmissions, which need high hardness and wear resistance in the surfaces with relatively ductile cores. Although various forms of chemicothermal treatment are widely used, there has been no universal method of evaluating the strengths of gear wheels. Standard methods of estimating strength ({sigma}{sub u}, {sigma}{sub t}, {sigma}{sub b}, and hardness) have a major shortcoming: They can determine only the characteristics of the cores for case-hardened materials. Here we consider a method of impact bending test, which enables one to evaluate the actual strength of gear teeth.

OSTI ID:
96784
Journal Information:
Metal Science and Heat Treatment, Vol. 36, Issue 11-12; Other Information: PBD: May 1995; TN: Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov; No. 11, 32-34(Nov 1994)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English