New Modelling and Experimental Techniques and Technologies for Mechanical Transmissions

Dear colleagues,

The modelling of mechanical transmissions has been an important research topic in several fields of engineering; in spite of numerous remarkable studies that have deeply investigated this subject, increasingly new challenges are going to be afforded in the next few years because of new applications, for example, for hybrid and electric vehicles.

The involved structures and complex interactions between the components of the gear systems, the fault vibration features and corresponding vibration mechanisms, the dynamics of mechanical transmissions, and the experimental testing require different aspects that need to be studied from diverse points of view, for both modelling and experiments.

This Special Issue addressess novel mechanical transmission dynamical models, experimental validations, tests and analytical investigations, together with all of the aspects of the experimental and analytical methods for the characterization, analysis, design, and optimization of gears in both a linear and non-linear filed. These topics include, but are not limited to, emerging methods in mechanical transmissions, gear and gearboxes, design, optimal design in the framework of nonlinear dynamics, techniques and technologies for monitoring, and the diagnostic of health of mechanical transmissions.

Papers can include the conceptual designs of mechanical transmission, theoretical development, and practical implementation. Both theoretical papers and experimental reports are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Pellicano
Dr. Marco Barbieri
Dr. Antonio Zippo
Guest Editors

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• mechanical transmissions
• gears
• nonlinear dynamics
• vibrations
• testing
• experimental