MEMBERS ONLY: LITERATURE REVIEW

It is time consuming keeping up to date with the latest ideas and research in the mechanical power transmission field, so the British Gear Association (BGA) have done it for you.

This is something we used to do regularly a few years ago, but we decided to re-start it now. We hope you find some of these useful and interesting. However, if you find nothing of relevance, please feel free to suggest other search parameters for future literature searches- we are very happy to amend the fields we search.

We have focussed on papers published in 2025 and 2026. If you know of good and relevant papers which we have missed, then let the BGA know. it probably means we need to adjust the search criteria next time. Of course, some papers in the list are not relevant to us but we will continue to refine the search criteria in the next searches.

Since we last did this exercise there has been some changes to the transmission research landscape. Many of them now feature at least some ‘machine learning’ (ML) element (or AI- a term I don’t think is appropriate to this) in the reported work.  This probably reflects more on the requirements of research funder’s than is strictly necessary for advancing research for many topics. In our field there are relatively few independent data sets for training models available and therefore the ML model is validated on a separated subset of the same data used for training.

Design Unit, Newcastle University used the Engineering Village data base to search for papers published in 2025 and 2026 in the following areas:

• Bearing materials and failure modes

• Bearing testing

• Bearing types

• Gear manufacturing

• Gear material science

• Gear measurement and modelling

• Gear testing

• Seals

• Splines

A PDF file with the most relevant top 25 publications is provided for download by BGA Members in each topic area from the Members section of the BGA Website (please note you will need to be logged in to view).

If you see something of interest, please use your favourite search engine to locate a copy.  Many publications are open access and readily available to all but contact the BGA if you experience any problems.