THE GEAR CHALLENGE
Learn how to prepare and test surface hardening on heat-treated helical gears using an automated and reproducible process.
Solution
Using highly-automated equipment and special clamping methods for cutting, it is possible to avoid pinching of the cut-off wheel and conduct a successive hardness tests on even the most difficult gear surfaces in a process consisting of:
- Cutting with a Axitom-5 using special clamping methods
- Grinding and polishing with an AbraPol-30 in 4 automated steps using a specific selected sequence of surfaces
- A fully automated CHD-measurement of 15 indentations with Duramin-40AC1
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Automotive gear preparation insight | Struers.com
Learn how to reliably prepare and test surface hardening on heat-treated helical gears. Our application specialists outline the latest metallographic methods for the automotive industry.