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DESIGN OF MACHINE ELEMENTS

School: SMBS

General Instructions for the entire question paper:

1. Design data book is permitted.
2. Assume suitable data, if data is required.

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Answer all questions of the following :

the section:
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What is meant by cumulative fatigue damage?

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Why the body of the coupler in some designs of

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turn-buckle is made hollow?

List out the application of helical spring in

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manufacturing industries.
Differentiate between chain riveting and zig-zag

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riveting.
What is the significance of slenderness ratio in

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shaft design?
Indicate what type of coupling is used under the

following conditions.
(a) With shafts having collinear axes
(b) Shafts having intersecting axes
(c) Shafts having parallel axes with a small
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distance apart
What is the safe endurance strength of a

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weldment subjected to fatigue loading?

Specify the materials by which the piston rod

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and connecting rods are made of?

How to categorize key in coupling?

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Specify the types of flywheel?

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Answer any FIVE of the following:

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11. a.
Explain with mathematical expressions maximum

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principal stress theory and Von-Mises-Henky

theory.
b.
A cantilever span of 750 mm carrues an uniformly
distributed load of 10 kN/m. The yield value of
material of cantilever is 375 N/mm2. Factor of
safety is 3. Find the economical section of
cantilever among.
(i)
(ii)

Circular section of diameter d.

Rectangular section of depth h and

(iii)

width t with h/t=2.

I-section of total depth 7t and width 5t
where t is the thickness.

Find the dimension and cross-sectional area of

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the economic section.

A 200x150x10 mm angle is to be welded to a
steel plate by fillet welds. If the angle is subjected
to a static tensile load of 300 kN. Find the length
of weld at the top and bottom. The allowable
shear stress for weld material is 75 N/mm2. Derive
expressions to find the length of welds.

b
Two plates of 12 mm thick are to be joined by a
double riveted butt joint with equal cover plates.
Design the joint assuming the design stresses in
tension, shear and crushing stresses are 55, 40
and 90 N/mm2 respectively. Find the efficiency of
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the joint.
A shaft of length 375 mm is supported on
bearings at A and C and carries at B and D. It
transmits 6 kW at 650 rpm. Gears are keyed on
the shaft. AB=100 mm, AC=300 mm, AD=375
mm. The radial loads at B and D on the shafts are
as follows.
Vertical load,

B
+500

D
-1900

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Horizontal

+2000

+1500

load, N
Safe shear stress for unkeyed section is 48 MN/m2
and the shock and fatigue factors Kt=Kb=1.5.
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Design a gib and cotter joint to carry tensile load

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of 50 kN. The materials of the rods, gib and cotter

is the same for which the allowable stresses are
24 MPa in tension, 60MPa in compression and 16
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MPa in shear.
A punching machine makes 20 working strokes

per minute and is capable of punching 30 mm

diameter holes in 8 mm thick steel plates having
ultimate shear strength of 300 N/mm2. The
punching operation takes place during 1/10th of a
revolution of the punching machine crankshaft.
Estimate the power required for the driving
motor, assuming a mechanical efficiency of 80%.
Also find suitable dimensions for the rim section
of the flywheel, which is to revolve at 9 times the
speed of the crankshaft by gear arrangement. The
permissible coefficient of fluctuation of speed is
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0.1. Assume suitable any other data if required.

Design a connecting rod of I-section for an engine

for the following data.

Crank radius =300 mm
Connecting rod length = 1800 mm
Speed of the crank =400 rpm
Specific weight of material =7.2 gm/cc
Neglect weight of the reciprocating parts.

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