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15 - General Engineering
University of Warwick
An investigation on the wear behaviour of dissimilar polymer gear engagements
The research reported in this paper is of great practical value to Victrex Japan (Masakazu Tanaka, Technical Manager, mtanaka@victrex.com), Victrex USA (Frank Ferfecki, Technical Leader, fferfecki@victrex.com) and Rod Kleiss (Head of Kleiss Gears, rodkleiss@kleissgears.com) in term of polymer design and application. The direct application of the research is a recent industrial collaboration with Helping Hand in UK (Gavin James, Managing Director, gavinjames@helpinghand.co.uk), i.e. using polymer gears in the Hoister Gearbox to replace steel gears for cost reduction. Significant progress has been made (nearly 85% endurance life has been achieved).