What grinds gears? (IMAGE)

Tsinghua University Press

What grinds gears?

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Researchers assessed recent studies on gear contact fatigue — when the gears that keep engines, helicopters, wind turbines and more in operation fail — to better understand the mechanisms that lead to such failure.

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Friction, Tsinghua University Press

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