Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

Gears Have Powered Technology for Millenia. Scientists Just Made a Game-Changing Improvement.

A new study reimagines the 3,000-year-old technology using fluids, avoiding the most annoying limitations of teeth-driven ...
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This touchless gear system uses fluid dynamics to transfer power and rotation without any teeth

From the chariot wheels crossing the Gobi Desert in 3,000 BCE to the intricate bronze clockwork of the Antikythera mechanism ...
Drives & Controls

Fluid-driven “gears” could out-perform mechanical devices

US researchers have created a gear mechanism that uses fluids, rather than mechanical teeth, to generate rotation. They ...

Liquid gears could challenge 5,000 years of mechanical engineering

The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, ...
Machine Design

Software simulates mechanical systems with chains, gears, and belts

MSC Software (MSC), Santa Ana, Calif., recently showed me its new Adams/Machinery program that works inside of the Adams/View interface (Adams lets users build and simulate models of any mechanical ...
Machine Design

8 Common Reasons Causing Gear Failure

The causes of gear failure are diverse yet preventable—even tooth degradation and lubrication contamination. Following these ...
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Simple Machines: Mechanical Advantage

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.