EAEAT

Affiliated to Ministry of
Military Production

Dr. Ahmed Ramadan

MEC341 / KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF MACHINES Academic year 2020/2021 - Fall 2020
 GEAR
TRAINS What is gear train?

Gear train is a combination of

gears and used for transmitting
motion and power from one
shaft to another shaft. there are
different types of gear trains.
 GEAR Types of Gear Trains
TRAINS
Simple Compound

Gear
Trains

Reverted Epicyclic
 GEAR 1- Simple Gear Train
TRAINS When there is only one gear on each shaft, as shown in
Fig.1, it is known as simple gear train. The gears are
represented by their pitch circles.

Fig.1. Simple gear train

 GEAR 2- Compound Gear Train
TRAINS
When there are more than
one gear on a shaft, as
shown in Fig.2, it is called:
a compound train of gear.
 GEAR 3- Reverted Gear Train
TRAINS When the axes of the first gear
(i.e. first driver) and the last
gear (i.e. last driven or follower)
are co-axial, then the gear train
is known as reverted gear train
as shown in Fig.3.
 GEAR 4- Epicyclic Gear Train
TRAINS in an epicyclic gear train, the axes of
the shafts, over which the gears are
mounted, may move relative to a
fixed axis. A simple epicyclic gear
train is shown in Fig.4, where a gear
A and the arm C have a common
axis at O1 about which they can
rotate. The gear B meshes with gear
A and has its axis on the arm at O2,
about which the gear B can rotate.
 GEAR Example 1
TRAINS In an epicyclic gear train, an arm carries two gears A and B having
36 and 45 teeth respectively. If the arm rotates at 150 r.p.m. in the
anticlockwise direction about the centre of the gear A which is fixed,
determine the speed of gear B. If the gear A instead of being fixed,
makes 300 r.p.m. in the clockwise direction, what will be the speed
of gear B ?
 GEAR Example 1
TRAINS Solution
First of all prepare the table of motions as given below :
Table1. Table of motions.
Given:
TA = 36 ; TB = 45 ;
NC = 150 r.p.m.
(anticlockwise)
 GEAR Example 1
Solution
TRAINS
Given:
TA = 36 ; TB = 45 ;
NC = 150 r.p.m.
(anticlockwise)
Kinematics and dynamics
of machines