...Yann Hiltcher; Michèle Guingand; Jean-Pierre de Vaujany The material of the wheel in a worm gear has to be nonrigid due to very high sliding velocity. Such gears are currently made of plastic in the case of a small module. The present paper describes an original method for studying the quasi-static...

... of the snap-fit feature. Often this is an unrealistic assumption, because snap-fits are usually molded on plastic parts with significant flexibility. The performance of snap-fits can be significantly influenced by this additional flexibility. To predict this performance of snap-fits it often becomes necessary...