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Effective production techniques designed to improve the contact fatigue strength of automatic transmission gear teeth

✍ Scribed by Youichi Watanabe


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
649 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0389-4304

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✦ Synopsis


We have investigated effective surface heat treatments and materials designed to increase the contact fatigue strength of gear teeth in terms of surface pitting endurance. The results show that the resistance to softening of the surface layer during tempering at 573 K is the most important factor. Carbo-nitriding (with a nitrogen content of 0.55 mass% or more) followed by hard shot-.peening (for instance, an arc height of 0.69 mmA), in which chromium steel with added silicon and molybdenum is used, is also found to be a very effective production technique for improving the contact fatigue strength.