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2. Misalignment-Compensating Couplings. Such couplings are required for connecting two members of a power-trans- mission or motion-transmission system that are not perfectly aligned. Misalignment means that components that are co- axial by design are not actually coaxial, due either to assembly errors or to deformations of subunits and/or their foundations, Figure 2. The latter factor is of substantial importance for transmission systems on nonrigid foundations. If the misaligned shafts are rigidly connected, this leads to elastic deformations of the shafts, and thus to dynamic loads on bearings, vibrations, increased friction losses in power transmission systems, and unwanted friction forces in motion transmission, especially in control systems. Misalignment-compensating couplings are used to reduce the effects of imperfect alignment by allowing nonrestricted or partially restricted motion between the connected shaft ends. Similar coupling designs are sometimes used to change bending natural frequencies/modes of long shafts. When only misalignment compensation is required, rigidity in torsional direction is usually a positive factor, otherwise the dynamic characteristics of the transmission system might be distorted. To achieve high torsional rigidity together with high mobility/compliance in misalignment directions (radial or parallel offset, axial, angular), torsional and misalignment-compen- sating displacements in the coupling have to be separated by using an intermediate compensating member. Frequently, torsionally rigid misalignment-compensating couplings, such as gear couplings, are referred to in the trade literature as flexible couplings. 3. Torsionally Flexible Couplings. Such couplings are used to change the dynamic characteristics of a transmission system, such as natural frequency, damping and character/degree of nonlinearity. The change is desirable or necessary when severe torsional vibrations are likely to dev