Memo
To: Neil Matula
From: Haegen Spring
Section #: 902
Date: 4-24-2014
Re: Failures
Purpose: To identify the causes for different types of failures in the different types of gears and gear
systems.
Procedure: We observed gears, belts, and bearings that had catastrophic or near catastrophic failures and
did research to discover what caused these failures and how to prevent them.
Results: The Results of the lab are enclosed in the attached lab handouts
Conclusions/ Recommendations: Gears and belts break all the time due to many different problems. By
researching and reading about what causes these failures and how to prevent them I feel that I am better
prepared to operate and maintain machinery in an industrial setting.
Real World Applications: There are many types of real world situations when knowing why gears fail and
how to prevent it would come in handy. For instance if machinery in a plant or refinery had lost some of
its power and had slowed down or stopped completely. Identifying what has gone wrong in the area of
