...Carl A. Nelson; Raymond J. Cipra A kinematic analysis technique is introduced to find the angular velocities of all links in bevel epicyclic gear trains. The method relies on previous work in graph theory. It improves on existing techniques used for analysis of planar geared mechanisms in its...

... by bevel epicyclic gear trains. A similarity index is proposed to describe the quality of kinematic similarity, with the best degree of similarity termed “equivalence.” It is proposed that kinematic analysis of mechanisms belonging to this “class” can be simplified by modeling them as bevel-gear trains...

...Xin Li; Linda Schmidt This paper presents a grammar-based designer assistance tool for Epicyclic Gear Trains (EGTs) that helps designers generate concepts of EGT structures during conceptual design. The tool is comprised of three parts. The first is a grammar-based graph generation engine...