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Title:	Errors in constant-velocity shaft couplings
Author:	Remington, Philip M.
View Online:	njit-etd1992-022 (vii, 46 pages ~ 2.7 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Mechanical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Fischer, Ian Sanford (Committee chair) Dave, Rajesh N. (Committee member) Rosato, Anthony D. (Committee member)
Date:	1992-10
Keywords:	Shafting. Couplings.
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	A Multiloop spatial system of rotations is used to represent a shaft coupling, allowing a transmission plane which may deviate from the plane of symmetry to be specified. The plane of transmission, for intersecting input and output shaft axes, is the locus of intersections of screw axes that compose the system. By prescribing the transmission plane outside of the plane of symmetry (commonly called the "homokinetic plane" or "bisecting plane") to pecified orientations, a phase shift between the input and output shaft rotational displacements will he quantified. The rotational phase shift between the input and output shafts can be evaluated for a series of configurations to classify the critical deviations from constant-velocity transmission as a function of the transmission plane location.