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Areas of emphasis include development of a modified transfer matrix to handle multiple frequencies and shafting; description of the time-varying stiffness tensor representing the involute spur gear mesh based on bending, shear, compression, and local contact deformation; development of the mesh transfer matrix; development of an automatic system solver to allow the engineer to analyze systems of arbitrary construction; and the development of a matrix solver to efficiently handle large systems. A computer analysis demonstrates the significance of terms included in the stiffness evaluation as compared with less rigorous treatment in the literature. 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