Using the industrial engineering concepts through the reverse engineering approach for improving the sprockets

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer at Faculty of engineering, Misr University for Science and Technology MUST, 6th of October city, Giza, Egypt.

10.1088/1757-899X/973/1/amme.2025.449052

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The sprocket systems have a vital role in the power transmission systems at many applications such as; the tanks, bulldozers, excavators, motorcycles, and bikes etc. Therefore, many investigations have had been carried out in order to improve their performance and increase their lifespan. Consequently, the improvements of the sprocket systems are carried out in the present work through three aspects; material selection processes, material forming processes, and material conditioning processes. The traditional sprocket systems have various defects such as; wear, deflection and chain defects etc. Therefore the present work improves the sprockets by reducing the existing defects through tackling their causes. After analyzing the reasons of the existing defects, the present work initiates the improvements by changing the sprocket material from steel alloy of medium carbon to high carbon, changing the manufacturing processes from common forming processes to laser forming techniques and applying the quenching and partial-annealing heat treatment processes in order to reduce the existing defects. In addition, anti-wear coat of titanium nitride is presently added to the sprocket in order to reduce the wear defect. Eventually, the present improvement is the increasing of the sprocket lifespan from about 15,000 km to about 45,000 km.

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The International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering
Volume 22, Issue 22
22nd International Conference on Applied Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering, AMME-22
2025
Pages 1-9

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