Staff Profile - Design Unit: Gear Technology

Gear Technology Design Unit

Senior Engineer

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• Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5519
• Address: Design Unit
  Newcastle University
  Unit B1 & B2
  Wincomblee Road
  Walker
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  NE6 3QS

Background

My role involves:

• leading the UK's National Gear Metrology Lab (NGML)- a UKAS accredited, Designated Institute for gear measurement and calibration.  NGML is part of the UK's National Measurement System, supported by BEIS.
• leading gear measurement, design and specification work as part of the Design Unit team.
• developing and maintaining ISO and BSI standards.  I chair MCE/5 BSI's committee that looks after over 100 standards relating to gears and shafts and work ISO TC60 WG2- gear accuracy and WG7 worm gears.
• supporting the British Gear Association (BGA) Technical Committee
• delivering BGA and Design Unit training courses and bespoke courses on gear technology.

Research

Transmission technology and gear measurement research.

Teaching

MEC 8029 Design of Mechanical Power Transmissions- MEng and MSc course 

Publications

• Bicker R, Frazer RC, Wehmeyer D. Verifying position errors in CNC gear measuring instruments using a laser interferometer with dynamic data capture software.In: 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Laser Metrology, CMM and Machine Tool Performance. 2001, Birmingham, UK: WIT Press, UK.
• Frazer RC, Bicker R, Cox B, Harary H, Hartig F. An international comparison of involute gear profile and helix measurement.Metrologia 2004, 41(1), 12-16.
• Koulin G, Zhang J, Frazer RC, Shaw BA, Sewell I. A new profile roughness measurement approach for involute helical gears.Measurement Science and Technology 2017, 28(5), 055004.
• Clarke A, Jamali HU, Sharif KJ, Evan HP, Frazer R, Shaw B. Effects of profile errors on lubrication performance of helical gears.Tribology International 2017, 111, 184-191.
• Lisle T, Shaw BA, Frazer RC. External spur gear root bending stress: A comparison of ISO 6336:2006, AGMA 2101-D04, ANSYS finite element analysis and strain gauge techniques.Mechanism and Machine Theory 2017, 111, 1-9.
• Zhao L, Frazer RC, Shaw B. Comparative study of stress analysis of gears with different helix angle using the ISO 6336 standard and TCA methods.Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 2016, 230(7-8), 1350-1358.
• Lisle TJ, Shaw BA, Frazer RC. Internal spur gear root bending stress: A comparison of ISO 6336:1996, ISO 6336:2006, VDI 2737:2005, AGMA, ANSYS finite element analysis and strain gauge techniques.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 2019, 233(5), 1713-1720.
• Reavie T, Koulin G, Frazer R, Wilson S, Shaw BA. A method to quantify waviness measurement capability of a gear measurement machine.Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 2018, 7(1), 015002.
• Lisle TJ, Shaw BA, Frazer RC, Yang Y, Zhao L. Low noise and transmission error epicyclic gearbox designs.In: International Gear Conference. 2018, Lyon, France.
• Koulin G, Reavie T, Frazer R, Shaw BA. Economic method for helical gear flank surface characterisation.Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 2017, 6(1), 015001.
• Koulin G, Zhang J, Frazer R, Wilson S, Shaw BA. Improving applied roughness measurement of involute helical gears.Measurement Science and Technology 2017, 28, 124006.
• Lisle TJ, Shaw BA, Frazer RC, Yang Y, Zhao L. Low noise and transmission error epicylic gearbox designs.Power Transmission Engineering 2021, (August 2021), 42-47.
• Zhao L, Frazer RC, Shaw BA. The influence of overlap ratio on transmission error in parallel axis gears.In: International Conference on Gears 2017. 2017, VDI Verlag GMBH.