by Darle W. Dudley
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For more than 30 years the book Practical Gear Design, later re-titled Handbook of Practical Gear Design, has been the leading engineering guide and reference on the subject. It is now available again in its most recent edition. The book is a detailed, practical guide and reference to gear technology. The design of all types of gears is covered, from those for small mechanisms to large industrial applications. The presentation is designed for easy reference for those involved in practical gear design, manufacture, applications and problem solving. The text is well illustrated with clear diagrams and photographs. The many tables provide needed reference data in convenient form.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Good reference material to have, 2007-01-05
This book is a good one to keep in your library. As is covers topics of gear design, manufactring and touches a bit on the failure mechanism of the gear.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 The standard reference on gear engineering, 2006-08-18
One of my two favorite gear books (the other being Drago's Fubdamentals of Gear Design). The 1983 edition is thorough, comprehensive and very readable for a reference book. Surprisingly for an American book of that time, it covers the metric system and standards (ISO, etc.) used in Europe and elsewhere. While the technical standards used in the book have been updated/replaced, it is still current in many areas and lays a solid conceptual basis for gear design.
I was tempted to buy the 1994 edition, but I browsed through it and did not find significant additions--and the printing quality was poor (as other reviewers pointed out). Still buying either edition is a first basic step for those interested in gear design.
Dudley has also written other widely read books in the field like the 1954 edition of this book and the 1962 Gear Handbook (as editor).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Great book at its time, 2005-09-11
This book was probably the best you could buy for introducing gear technology in 1983 (and probably still is). The only problem is that it is scanned pages from the original so all pictures are poor, especially pictures of gear failures cant be copied. At some pages there are also small white dots that covers the text but they are not so many that you get disturbed by them.
If this book would have been a reprint of the original and not scanned it would have been a killer. I do wish for this book to be updated to modern standards.
Anyway, it is still worth the money and should not be missing from a gear designers bookshelf.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
The printing quality is poor, try to find the 1984 original, 2004-12-21
The book contents might be excellent. I regreted to
buy the copy by CRC press. It seems to me that CRC press
photocopied the original 1984 version by McGraw-Hill.
The pictures looks terrible.
I recommend to purchase the copy by the other press.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
Handbook Of Pratical Gear Design, 2000-06-10
Anyone who engineers or specifies gears or gear drives would benefit from this book. Information on the design and function of gears is found in this well thought out text book. This book (written 1983) is greatly expanded and updated from the original (1954) version that I read in 1973. At this time, Handbook of Practical Gear Design is not quite the state of the art in gear engineering it is an excellent resource. All types of gearing are discussed. Read all the articles completely because the last part of the articles usually has newer information. (for example: the article on Hunting Teeth on page 3.8.) This is one of the great books in gear engineering and I consider this book a basic source in gaining the knowledge of great gear design.
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