Teaching Planetary Gear Trains with the Aid of Nomographs

Planetary gear trains (PGTs) are introduced to undergraduate mechanical engineering students in the course of Theory of Machines. The complexity of the traditional methods for analyzing PGTs has kept many from becoming familiar with the capability of PGTs in mechanisms and machine design. In this pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Essam Lauibi Esmail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/978418