[4] Ex/PG/ME-AUE/T/129A/210/2009

MASTER OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING EXAMINATION , 2009

- Spring needed for the purpose mean & maximum diameter
( 2nd semester )
of spring coil, wire diameter, free length of the coil
VEHICLE DESIGN
Assume suitable materials and design stress. Any other Time : Three hours Full Marks : 100
assumptions are permitted. 25
( 50 marks for each part )
3. An automobile gear box is having 4 forward and 1 backward Use separate Answer-Script for each part
speed. The top gear ratio is 1 : 1 and 1st gear ratio is 1 : 4. PART - I
The other gear ratios are in geometric progression.
Answer any two questions.
Design the output shaft of the gear box with the following All the questions carry equal marks.
assumptions Data, suitable to a problem may be assumed
Engine B. H. P. = 50. in case the same is not furnished.

Rated r.p.m. of the engine = 4500 1. What are the features to be considered while designing a

Shaft maetrials - Ni - Cr. steel with stress value 500 MPa piston?

Overall length of the shaft - 250 m.m. For a Trunk type piston head made of C. I., find all the
dimensions including the thickness of the piston head by
Assume any other data. Your final data should be confirmed by
considering the piston head as a flat round plate of uniform
suitable equation. 25
thickness fixed at the edges from appropriate relations.
4. An automobile Engine developing 75 BHP at 4000 r.p.m. Design
Take the maximum pressure during combustion as 60 Kgf/cm2
the clutch shaft, clutch plate, pressure spring and torsion
and cylinder bore as 160 mm when allowable tensile stress of
spring. Assume suitable materials stress value. Draw the
the piston material is 370 Kgf/cm2.
skematic diagram of the assembly.
Check the thickness of piston head from the consideration of
Assume pedal play of 10 m.m. and 6 No. of pressure spring;
Heat Transfer. Deduce the equation used for the purpose.
torsion spring play of 6 m.m. having 5 in No. ; ratio of outer
diameter to inner diameter of clutch plate is 1.6. Take for grey C. I., thermal conductivity
K = 0.4 KCal/cm2 hr o C.
Any other reasonable assumptions are permitted. 25
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Take the difference of temperature between the piston centre PART - II

& edge = 205oC. Check the thickness of piston against Answer any two questions.
bending failure also. 25 4. To design a collapseable steering shaft for a passenger car,

2. Starting from the brake power and speed in RPM of a Diesel what mechanism you will employ ?

Engine, design the theoratical cycle of the engine (single
cylinder). Also explain the methodology used to find out the
actual indicator diagram, the gas force, the inertia force and
the torque developed by the engine as functions of the crank
angle (theta) rotated from the Top Dead Centre (TDC) position
of the piston. 25
3. a) Why it is preferrable to choose an I section for the
connecting rod ?
Design the I-section for a connecting rod for the
maximum piston thrust = 13000 Kgf
Design the mechanism for a passenger having the following
particulars.
Gross weight of the vehicle - 1500 kg
Wheel base - 2500 mm
C. G. of the car is 1100 m.m from rear axle
Height of C.G above ground level - 700 m.m.
Co-efficient of friction between road and tyre 0.4.
Maximum velocity of the vehicle 150 KMPH
Assume your own materials for the components and the
respective design stresses. Any other reasonable assumptions

l are permitted. 25
value of n = = 3 75
r 5. Design the master cylinder of hydraulic brake system having

kgf the following particulars of a vehicle.

Allowable stress of the I-section in crushing = 925
cm 2 Maximum effort to be applied to the brake pedal - 100 N.
1 The brake pedal liverage - 5
Court for Rankine Gordon Equation =
7500 Maximum line pressure allowed - 5 MPa
Length of connecting rod from small end centre to big end Master cylinder to be single piston type
centre = 22 cms. 15 Following components are to be designed
b) Write how the inside diameter and the outside diameter of - Piston diameter and thickness
the piston pin are determined. 10 - Cylinder length, diameter and thickness

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