ABSTRACT
It is often assumed that gear engineers are primarily concerned with toothed wheels that mesh with each other. The gear engineer, of course, has to understand and deal with the design application of gear teeth. In a broad sense, though, the gear engineer has to be concerned with the whole gearbox. For instance, the bearings that support the toothed gear wheels and the mountings of gears on shafts are a very important part of the technology of gear units. This chapter covers how to determine the reaction forces that come from typical loaded gears, and it also covers typical gear mounting arrangements.
