tbuelna, thanks for your input. We originally planned on a major diameter fit to transfer the side load. However, the operating environment tends to result in deposits, and the people who oversee maintenance requirements objected to the tight clearance of the major diameter fit. We switched to a...
jgKRI, thanks for the reference. I love a good research paper as much as the next guy, but some of the terminology in that abstract strikes me as more academic than applied. Is this what you based your calc on?
I am checking a calculation for the design of some splined joints as follows:
-Involute fillet root side fit splines
-Externally splined items are simply-supported shafts with the splines on cantilevered ends
-Internally splined items are bell cranks on each end with approximately quarter-turn...
