Abstract: Many driveline systems are designed to accommodate angular misalignment by the use of flexible couplings or Universal Joints (U-Joints) which link individual shaft segments. The Sommerfeld effect is a nonlinear phenomenon ...

Abstract: Due to inherent nonlinearity of the autobalancer, the potential for other, undesirable, nonsynchronous limit-cycle vibration exists. In such undesirable situations, the balancer masses do not reach their desired synchronous ...

Abstract: Despite the elegant nature of the automatic balancing principle for passive imbalance vibration control, the co-existence of undesired whirling limit-cycles is a major impediment to the more widespread application of ...

Abstract: This paper studies the dynamic behaviors for facegear drives meshing with multiple spur pinions by using the model of a spinning disk with timevarying mesh loads that result from the unique facegear meshing kinematics and ...