Spur Gear Design by Using MATLAB Code

One of the most important component in mechanical is Gear for the transmission of power with ease and with less friction. Its main aim is to transfer torque from one shaft to other. There are different kinds of gears namely spur gear, helical gears, worm gears etc. Gear drives are used for different kinds of machines like automobiles, metal cutting tools, material handling equipment�s, rolling mills, marine power plants etc. The friction and other losses in this type of power transmission equipment is comparatively very low. In this work a software called �MATLAB� is used to design a Spur Gear. MATLAB is widely used for lot of research purposes for obtaining accurate results and it has got a lot of built in functions which makes it versatile. It is a user friendly one and when executed it ask the inputs and performs the necessary design calculations and gives necessary output values. As computers are used to perform the task of gear design becomes simple, friendly and error free.