VINAYAKA MISSIONS RESEARCH FOUNDATION

AARUPADAI VEEDU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHENNAI

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V.M.K.V.ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SALEM
BOARD : MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PROGRAM : B.TECH – MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - PT
SEMESTER : V, Regulation-2017
SUBJECT : DESIGN OF TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
COURSE CODE :

QUESTION BANK

UNIT - I
PART – A

1. Why are idler pulleys used in a belt drive?

2. Define slip of a belt. What is the effect of slip on velocity ratio of a belt drive?
3. What is meant by ply in a flat belt?
4. What is centrifugal effect on belts?
5. What is initial tension in belt drives?
6. What is a ‘V-belt’ drives?
7. Write any four wire rope applications.
8. How are wire rope designated?
9. State law of Belting.
10. What are the advantage of V- belt drive and flat belt drive?
11. What is the significance of centre distance in belt drive?
12. Why tight side of the belt should be at the bottom side of the pulley?
13. What is the effect of centre distance and diameter of pulley on the life of a belt?
14. What are the various losses in the power transmission by belts?
15. What is Slack adjuster?
16. How are the chains classified?
17. What are the losses in chain drives?
18. Why is odd number of teeth for sprocket preferred?
19. What are the various stresses induced in a wire rope?
20. What are the types of failure in Chain drive?
 PART – B

1. Design a V-belt drive and calculate the actual belt tensions and average stress for the
following data.
Driven pulley dia.= 500 mm, Driver pulley dia.= 150 mm, Centre distance=925 mm,
Speeds n1=1000 rpm,n2=300 rpm and Power = 7.5 kw.
2. It is required to select a fiat- belt drive for a fan running at 360 r.p.m. which is driven by a
10 KW, 1440 r.p.m. motor. The belt drive is open-type and space available for a centre of 2
m approximately. The diameter of a driven pulley is 1000 mm.
3. Design a fabric belt to transmit15 KW at 480 r.p.m. from an engine to a line shaft at 1200
r.p.m. The diameter of engine pulley is 600 mm. and centre distance between the pulleys is
2 m.
4. Design a V- belt drive to the following specifications:
Power to be transmitted = 7.5 KW
Speed of driving wheel = 1440 r.p.m.
Speed of driven wheel = 400 r.p.m.
Diameter of driving wheel = 300 mm.
Centre distance = 1000mm.
Service = 16 hours/ day
5. A 30 KW, 1440 r.p.m. motor is to drive a compressor by means of V- belts. The diameter
of pulleys are 220 mm. and 750 mm. The centre distance between the compressor and
motor is 1400 mm. Design a suitable drive.
6. Design a wire for an elevator in a building 60 metres high and for a total load of 20 KN.
The speed of the elevator is 4 m/sec and the full speed is reached in 10 seconds.
7. A truck equipped with a 9.5 KW engine uses a roller chain as the final drive to the rear
axle. The driving sprocket runs at 900 r.p.m. and the driven sprocket at 400 r.p.m. with a
centre distance of approximately 600 mm. Select the roller chain.
8. Design a V-belt drive and calculate the actual belt tensions and average stress for the
following data.
Driven pulley dia.= 500 mm, Driver pulley dia.= 150 mm, Centre distance=925 mm,
Speeds n1=1000 rpm,n2=300 rpm and Power = 7.5 kw.
9. An open flat belt drive connects two parallel shafts 1.2 m apart. The driving and driven
shafts rotate at 350 rpm and 140 rpm respectively and the driven pulley is 400 mm in
diameter. The power to be transmitted is 1.1 KW. Design the drive.
10. Design a chain drive to run a compressor from a 11 kW electric motor running at 970 rpm,
the compressor speed being 330 rpm. The compressor operates 16 hours/day. The center
distance should be approximately 500 mm. The chain tension can be adjusted by shifting
the motor on slides.
 UNIT - II
PART – A

1. What are the advantages of toothed gears over the other types of transmission systems?
2. What are the assumptions made in deriving Lewis equation?
3. What are the effects of increasing for decreasing the pressure angle in gear?
4. When do you use non-metallic gears?
5. Define pitch circle with reference to spur gears.
6. AGMA’ stands for what?
7. State the law of gearing.
8. What is interference in involute profile?
9. Why is dedendum value more than addendum value?
10. How no.of teeth affect the design of gears?
11. What is working depth of a gear tooth?
12. What is interchangeability of gears?
13. Define transmission ratio and pitch circle w.r.t spur gear.
14. What is Load concentration factor?
15. Define module & diametral pitch.
16. Why do you prefer helical gears than spur gears?
17. Define axial pitch of a helical gear.
18. What is virtual [or formative] number of teeth in helical gears?
19. What are the advantages of helical gears over spur gears?
20. Why the crossed helical gear is not used for power transmission?
 PART – B

1. Design a spur gear drive required to transmit 45 KW at a pinion speed of 800 r.p.m. T he
velocity ratio is 3.5:1. The teeth are 20º full depth involute with 18 teeth on the pinion.
Both the pinion and gear are made of steel with a maximum safe static stress of 180
N/mm2 . Assume medium shock conditions
2. In a spur gear drive for a stone crusher, the gears are made of C40 steel. The pinion is
transmitting 20 KW at 1200 r.p.m. The gear ratio is 3. Gear is to work 8 hours per day, six
days a week and for 3 years, Design the drive.
3. Design a spur gear to transmit 2KW at 1440 r.p.m Desired speed ratio is 3. Use C45 steel
for gears.
4. Design a spur gear device for transmitting 50 KW from motor running at 1440 r.p.m. to a
machine running 360 r.p.m. Use C45 steel for the gears and specify the heat treatment, if
necessary. Design the gears.
5. Design a spur gear drive to transmit to 10 KW at 1440 r.p.m. with speed ratio of 3. The
starting torque is 50% more than the mean torque. Assume suitable materials.
6. Design a spur gear drive to transmit 28 KW at 900 r.p.m. Speed reduction is 2.5. Material
for pinion and wheel are C15 steel and cast grade 30. Take pressure angle as 20º and
working life of gears as 10,000 hours.
7. Design a spur gear drive to transmit to 8 KW at 1440 r.p.m. with speed ratio of 2.5.
Assume suitable materials.
8. A pair of helical gears subjected to moderate shock loading is to transmit 30 KW at 1500
r.p.m. of the pinion. The speed reduction ratio is 4 and the helix angle is 20º. The service is
continuous and the teeth are 20ºFD in the normal plane. For the gear life of 10,000 hours,
design the gear drive.
9. A parallel helical gear set consists of a 19-teeth pinion driving a 57-teeth gear. The pinion
has a left-hand helix angle of 20º, a normal pressure angle of 14 ½ º, and a normal
diametral pitch of 0.4 teeth/mm. Find:
i. [a] The normal, transverse, and axial circular pitches.
ii. [b] The transverse module and the transverse pressure angle.
iii. [c] The pitch diameter of the two gears.
10. A helical gear has a normal pressure angle of 20º, a helix angle of 45ºand a normal module
of 4mm and has 20 teeth. Find (i) pitch diameter (ii) transverse, normal and axial circular
pitches.
 UNIT – III
PART – A

1. What are spiral [or skew] gears?

2. What is zero bevel gear?
3. Under what situation, bevel gears are used?
4. Where do we use worm gears?
5. What is the velocity ratio range of worm gear drive?
6. What is difference between helical and bevel gear?
7. In worm gear drive, only the wheel is designed. Why?
8. When do we use skew gears or spiral gears?
9. What is difference between spiral and worm gear?
10. What are the materials used for manufacturing worm gears?
11. Define: Cone, Back cone distance and Face angle.
12. Relate the lead and lead angle in worm gears.
13. How bevel gears are classified?
14. In which gear, Self-locking is available? Why?
15. Why the crossed helical gear is not used for power transmission?
16. What is irreversibility in worm gears?
17. Why phosphor bronze is widely used for worm gears?
18. What is difference between spiral and bevel gear?
19. What are the advantages of spiral gear?
20. Write down limitation of worm gear.
 PART – B

1. Design a cast iron bevel gear drive for a pillar drilling machine to transmit 1.5 KW at
800 r.p.m. to a spindle at 400 r.p.m.. The gear is to work for 40 hours per week for 3
years. Pressure angle is 20º.
2. Design a straight bevel gear drive between two shafts at right angles to each other.
Speed of the pinion shaft is 360 r.p.m. and the speed of the gear wheel shaft is 120
r.p.m. Pinion is of steel and wheel of cast iron. Each gear is expected to work 2 hours/
day for 10 years. The drive transmits 7.2KW.
3. Design a bevel gear drive to transmit 7.5 KW at 1440 r.p.m. Gear ratio is 3; pinion and
gear are made of C45 steel; Life of gear 10000hrs.
4. Design a bevel drive to transmit a power of 9KWat 20 r.p.m. of the pinion. Gear ratio is
be 3. Material to be used is C20.σu =500 N/mm2; σy = 260 N/mm2; Assume the
expected gear life as 10000 hours.
5. A steel worm running at 240 r.p.m. receives 1.5 KW from its shaft. The speed reduction
is 10:1. Design the drive so as to have an efficiency of 80%. Also determine the
cooling area required, if the temperature rise is restricted to 45ºC. Take overall heat
transfer coefficient as 10 W/m2 ºC.
6. Design a worm gear drive to transmit 8 KW at 720 r.p.m. The desired velocity ratio is
36:1.
7. Design a worm drive for a speed reducer to transmit 15 KW at 1440 r.p.m. to the worm
shaft. The desired wheel speed is 60 r.p.m. Select suitable worm and wheel materials
8. Design a pair of bevel gears for two shafts whose axes are at right angles. The power
transmitted is 30 KW.T he speed of pinion is 300 rpm and of the gear is 120 rpm select
the Materials and design the drive.
9. A speed reducer is to be designed for an input of 11.25 KW with a transmission ratio of
20.The speed of the hardened steel worm is 1500 rpm. The worm wheel is to be made
of bronze. The tooth is to be 20 deg. involute.
10. A motor shaft rotating at 1440 rpm has to transmit 15 KW power to a low speed shaft
rotating at 500 rpm. A 20º deg. Pressure angle involute tooth gear pinion is used. The pinion
has 25 teeth. Design a suitable gear drive.
 UNIT – IV

PART – A

1. Write any two requirements of a speed gear box.

2. List any two methods used for changing speed in gears boxes.
3. What are preferred numbers?
4. What is step ratio?
5. State any three basic rules to be followed while designing a gear box.
6. What does the ray-diagram of gear box indicates?
7. What are the possible arrangements to achieve 12 speeds from a gear box?
8. What is a speed reducer?
9. What is kinematics arrangement as applied to gear boxes?
10. Define progression ratio.
1. What are the methods of lubrication in speed reducers?
2. Draw the Ray diagram for a six-speed gearbox.
3. Write any four steps in the design of gearboxes.
4. What purpose does the housing of gearbox serve?
5. What is speed reducer and multi-speed gearbox?
6. Name the types of speed reducers.
17. What is gear box housing?
18. What is the structural diagram of a gear box?
19. What are spacers as applied to a gear-box?
20. In what way the kinematic arrangement is linked with speed diagram?
 PART – B

1. A six speed gear box is to provide a speed range of 100 r.p.m to 1000 r.p.m. Draw the
speed diagram and the kinematic layout of the gear box. Find the number of teeth on all
gears
2. The minimum and maximum speeds of 6 speed gear box are to be 500 and 1600 r.p.m.
construct the speed diagram and the kinematic arrangement of the gear box. Find the
number of teeth on all gears
3. A nine speed gearbox is required to give output speed ranging from 100 r.p.m. to 600
r.p.m. The input power is 4 kW at 1000 r.p.m. Draw the structural diagram and the
kinematic arrangement of gear. Also calculate the percentage deviation of the obtainable
speeds from the calculated ones.
4. Draw the kinematic arrangement and the speed diagram of the headstock gear box of a
turret lathe having arrangement for 9 spindle speeds ranging from 31.5 r.p.m. to 1050
r.p.m. Calculate the number of teeth on each gear if the minimum number of teeth on a
gear is 25.
5. A 12speed gear box is to provide a minimum speed of 30 r.p.m. with a step ratio of 1.12.
Using standard step ratios, find the number of teeth on all gears.
6. A gearbox is to give 18 speeds for a spindle of a milling machine. Maximum and
minimum speeds of the spindle are to be around 16 to 800 r.p.m respectively. Find the
speed ratios which will give the desired speed and draw the structural diagram and the
kinematic arrangement of the drive.

7. In a machine tool application, 12 different speeds are required from 125 rpm to 450 rpm in
the output shaft. The motor speed is 630 rpm.
a. Determine the 12 standard speeds in G.P
b. Draw the Ray diagram
c. Sketch the kinematics layout
d. Determine the no. of teeth on the gears to be used.
8. Design the layout of a 12speed gear-box for a lathe. The minimum and maximum speeds are 100
and 1200rpm. Power is 5kw from 1440rpm. Construct the speed diagram using a standard speed
ratio. Calculate number of teeth in each gear wheel and sketch the arrangement of gear box.

9. A 9 speed gear box is to provide a speed range of 100 r.p.m to 1000 r.p.m. Draw the speed
diagram and the kinematic layout of the gear box. Find the number of teeth on all gears.

10. A machine tool gearbox is to provide 12spindle speed ranging from 20 to 400 r.p.m. Draw
the kinematic arrangement and the ray diagram.
 UNIT – V

PART – A

1. What is the function of a clutch?

2. What are the properties required of the material used as a friction surface?
3. Why heat dissipation is necessary in clutches?
4. Clutches are usually designed on the basic of uniform wear. Why?
5. Differentiate a brake and a clutch.
6. What is a self- locking brake?
7. What you meant by self- energizing brake?
8. Differentiate a brake and a dynamometer.
9. Why in automobiles, braking action when traveling in reverse is not as effective as moving
forward?
10. What is fade?
11. Give examples for radial and axial brakes.
12. What is the difference between a coupling and a clutch?
13. Distinguish between wet and dry operation of clutches.
14. Classify the clutches based on the coupling methods.
15. If a multi disc clutch has 8 discs in driving shaft and 9 discs in driven shaft, then how
many numbers of contact surfaces it will have?
16. What is the difference between cones and centrifugal clutches?
17. In Cone clutches, semi-cone angle should be greater than 12˚ why?
18. Specify the types of clutches?
19. Why are cone clutches better than disc clutch?
20. Specify the advantage of pivoted block brake?
 PART – B

1. A single pate clutch transmit 25 KW at 900 r.p.m. The maximum pressure intensity
between the plates is 85 KW/m2. The ratio of radii is 1.25. Both the sides of the plate are
effective and the coefficient of friction is 0.25. Determine [i] the inner diameter of the
plate, and [ii] the axial force to engage the clutch. Assume theory of uniform wear.

2. Outer and inner diameters of a single plate clutch, having ferodo friction linings on both
sides are 300 mm and 200 mm respectively. The coefficient of friction between the
contacting surfaces is0.35. Assuming uniform rate of wear, determine the maximum power
that can be transmitted by the clutch at 1500 r.p.m. when the maximum pressure is not to
exceed 15x104 N/m2 . Also, determine the axial thrust to be exerted by the springs on
pressure plate.

3. Determine the maximum, minimum and average pressure in a plate clutch when the axial
force is 5000 N. The outer and inner diameters of the friction surfaces are 200 mm and 100
mm respectively. Assume uniform wear.

4. A car engine has its rated output of 12 KW. The maximum torque developed is 100 N-m.
The clutch used is of single plate having two active surfaces. The axial pressure is not to
exceed 82 KN/m2. The external diameter of the friction plate is 1.25 times the internal
diameter. Determine the dimensions of the friction plate and the axial force exerted by the
springs. Coefficient of friction =0.3.

5. A band brake is to be designed for a winch to lift a load of 20 KN through a 15m height by
a rope wire wound on a barrel of 450 mm diameter. The hoisting cycle is 3 minutes, out of
which the actual braking time is 60 seconds. The angle of contact between the band and
brake drum is 20º. The brake drum may be keyed to the same shaft. Give the complete
design.
6. A double shoe brake in Fig.11.7, is capable of absorbing a torque of 1400 N-m. In Fig.11.7,
a= 200mm; b= 450mm and c=80 mm. The diameter of the brake drum is 350mm and the
angle of contact of each shoe is 100°. If the coefficient of friction between the brake drum
and lining is 0.4; find [1] the spring force necessary to set the brake; and [2] the width of
the brake shoes; if the bearing pressure on the lining material is not to exceed 0.3 N/mm2.
Spring force
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7. Determine the capacity and the main dimension of a double block brake for the
following data: The load weighs 50KN and moves downward with hoist drum speed of
19.1 r.p.m. The hoist drum diameter is 1 m. The load must be stopped within a distance of
3m.
8. A simple band brake is operated by a lever of length 500mm. The drum has a diameter
of 500mm and the brake band embraces 5/8 of the circumference. One end of the band is
attaches to the fulcrum of the lever while the other end is attaches to a pin on the lever
100mm from the fulcrum. If the effort applied to the end of the lever is 2KN and the
coefficient of friction is 0.25, find the maximum braking torque on the drum .

9.. Outer and inner diameters of a single plate clutch of a single plate clutch having ferodo
linings on both sides are 300 mm and 200 mm respectively. The coefficient of friction
between contacting surfaces is 0.35. Assuming uniform wear, determine the max. power
that can be transmitted by the clutch at 1500 rpm.. When the max. pressure is not to exceed
15 x 104 N/m2, Also determine the axial thrust to be exerted by the springs on the pressure
plate.

10. A leather faced conical friction clutch has a cone angle of 30º. The intensity of pressure is
not to exceed 6 x 104 N/mm2. And the breadth of the conical surface is not to be grater
than 1/3 of the mean radius if µ= 0.2 and the clutch transmits 37 KW at 2000 rpm. Find the
dimensions of contact surface.