This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the theory, practice and design aspects of gear technology. Basic concepts and design principles have been systematically explained and illustrated through solved examples.Part I of the book explains theory of gears covering all gear forms, namely, spur, helical gears, straight, spiral, zerol bevel gears, hypoid gears and worm gears. It also details the basic conjugacy requirement of gears. For the first time, a ...