An overview of the gear research performed at the Institute of Mechanics of Izhevsk State Technical University in the field of development, investigation, and application of spiroid gears, gearboxes and motor gears is given in the lecture. This direction is the traditional one for the Institute of Mechanics and involves all stages of product development from design and investigation methodology up to production in accordance with customer specification. Gear design process is decomposed into separate steps including choice of gear scheme parameters, determination of geometrical parameters of gear elements, simulation of gearing geometry and kinematics, evaluation of power characteristics.
Special attention is paid to production problems regarding production of gears and gearboxes.
Some results of investigation of gear accuracy, vibration and modification of active surfaces of meshing elements to get localized contact are given in the lecture. In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, corresponding CAD systems were developed. This activity is accomplished jointly with industry. Some results of this cooperation are given in the lecture along with some other projects of the Institute of Mechanics in the field of gears and tool software development. Biography Veniamin I. Goldfarb was born in 1941 in Izhevsk, Russia.