Theory of GEARING
Gearing plays a role, usually unseen, in the lives of everyone in the civilized world. Few people know anything about gears, and even fewer understand them. Even practicing engineers, except those who are gear specialists,know little except the rudiments about gears.
A couple dozen more or less serious books have been written on gearing during the last five decades. Numerous monographs titled Theory of Gearing have been published. Most texts on theory of gearing target the compilation and systematization of known achievements in the field of gearing. No effort has been undertaken to this end to develop a theory of gearing that covers all known achievements as well as making possible the development of novel kinds of gearing that feature the desired performance (predictive capabilities). A solution to this problem is disclosed by the author in this monograph.
It is likely that Theodore Olivier’s Theory of Gearing (1842) was the first monograph ever published in the field [81]. To be honest, the monograph by Olivier [81], as well as all other books published to this end, is not a scientific monograph in nature. Practical and theoretical experience are compiled in the published books. A scientific theory should be based on a set of postulates, from which the entire theory is derived. No definitive monograph of this sort in the field of gearing is published to this end