Source: Gearsolutions.com
THE CAUSES FOR DISTORTION OF GEARS are complex and the heat treatment process has been named as a main contributing factor. However, the truth is, all the manufacturing steps prior to and after heat treating also make a contribution to distortion. Nevertheless, any thermal operations carried out on gears may trigger and reveal the hidden distortion potential induced by manufacturing. An interesting approach of “distortion engineering” was established by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) at Bremen University.
