ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are expressing our thanks and we are crediting the following publications for providing material for this text, by the permission of the publisher:

1. Design of Machine Elements, M. F. Spotts, Late Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University and T. E. Shoup, Dean of Engineering, Santa Clara University, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, 1998.

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4. Handbook of Shafts, Bearings and Couplings, Technical Staff of Stock Drive Products and Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI), 1993.

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