Factors influencing the proportioning of machine elements: stresses, deformations, and failure criteria as applied to shafts, springs, belts, bearings, gears. Design of Elements is a required course ...

THIS is an important work on a subject which it is difficult to treat in systematic manner on account of the great complexity of the conditions involved. The variety of machines now made is almost ...

An overview of fatigue failure and how it affects mechanical systems. How FEA software enables engineers to predict fatigue failure points on structural designs, before the manufacturing process. From ...

The ubiquitous ball spline. Basically, it is a type of mechanical element used in a variety of industrial applications where precise movement and alignment is required, like machine tools, robot arms ...

Robert F. Dray is the founder and owner of R. Dray Mfg. Inc. What are the four most poorly designed elements of an injection molding machine? The purging setup, the nozzle and sprue bushing ...