Gears

GearTrack is an online Equipment Management system that allows administrators to rent, check out and reserve equipment, with the additional option of allowing Online Reservations by their clients. Advanced functionality allows for damage and maintenance tracking and keeping a detailed history of all activity. GearTrack lets you group your inventory into different categories, such as Water Equipment, Ski Equipment or anything else that applies to your operation. As you add your inventory, you can create item options to further categorize your inventory. For example, hiking boots could be broken out into different shoe sizes. GearTrack provides functionality to allow combining your inventory into packages, each treated as a unique item. GearTrack can be used to help manage item maintenance. A detailed log is kept tracking both the number of uses and the actual time used for each item in the system.

WindowsLDP (Load Distribution Program) is a quasi-static gear design and analysis tool for external and internal spur and helical gear pairs. This software program has been adapted and used extensively by most of the consortium members as the main gear design and analysis tool. Variations of this model to perform surface wear and duty cycle analyses are also available. WindowsLDP employs computationally efficient and accurate semi-analytical formulations to compute the load distribution between multiple mating teeth of gears. With the predicted load distribution, it computes the loaded transmission error, root and contact stress distributions, mesh stiffness functions, tooth forces as well as other design relative parameters such as lubricant film thickness and surface temperature. User has the choice of using SI or English units in the analyses. WindowsLDP’s capabilities also include multi-torque analyses and manufacturing robustness analyses.