The objective of optimized shaft alignment is to increase the operating life span of rotating machinery. To achieve this goal, components that are the most likely to fail must be made to operate ...

Interfacing a shaft to a 3D printed gear doesn’t have to be tricky. [Tlalexander] demonstrated a solution that uses one half of a spider coupling (or jaw coupling) to create an effective modular ...

Productivity is a shared goal in industrial applications involving designers, component makers, and end users. Everyone plays a role. In this report, Motion System Design editors polled coupling and ...

1. Don't choose your coupling based on habit or price alone. Because engineers are creatures of habit, choosing a coupling type is often a matter of having selected that same type for a previous ...

It has been a long haul, but I finally have the motor in my '67 Beetle EV conversion. I've had one setback after another, but I expected it to be the most technically challenging part of the job and I ...

Torque is a stone-cold killer. While its more flamboyant partner, Horsepower, rakes in the magazine headlines and dyno-chart hosannas, Torque wages a quiet but unceasing campaign of mechanical mayhem ...