Ismail Akbani

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering Symbiosis Institute of Technology,Pune

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Used to connect two rods under tensile load. Permits angular misalignment of the rods and may take compressive load if it is guided.

Knuckle JoinS???
Two or more rods subjected to tensile and compressive forces are fastened together Their axes are not in alignments but meet in a point The joint allows a small angular moment of one rod relative to another

It can be easily connected and disconnected

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Used for different types of connections e.g. tie rods, tension links in bridge structure. One of the rods has an eye at the rod end and the other one is forked with eyes at both the legs. A pin (knuckle pin) is inserted through the rodend eye and fork-end eyes and is secured by a collar and a split pin.

 In the knuckle joint illustrated, the rods are integral with the eye and fork (forged construction). However, the knuckle joint is often separate to the rods, and the rods need to be welded or screwed into the eye and fork.

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Normally, empirical relations are available to find different dimensions of the joint and they are safe from design point of view. The proportions are given in the figure-1

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d = diameter of rod d1 = d t =1.25d d2 = 2d t1 = 0.75d d3 =1.5.d t2 = 0.5d Mean diameter of the split pin = 0.25 d The analyses are discussed in following section assuming the same materials for the rods and pins and the yield stresses in tension, Compression and shear are given by t, c and .

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3. Failure of knuckle pin in bending (if the pin is loose in the fork):Assuming a triangular pressure distribution on the pin, the loading on the pin is shown in figure 2 Equating the maximum bending stress to tensile or compressive yield stress we Have:

The design may be carried out using the empirical proportions and then the analytical relations may be used as checks. For example using the 2nd equation we have.

We may now put value of d1 from empirical relation and then find

which should be more than one.

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Two mild steel rods are connected by a knuckle joint to transmit an axial force of 100 kN. Design the joint completely assuming the working stresses for both the pin and rod materials to be 100 MPa in tension, 65 MPa in shear and 150 MPa in crushing.

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For failure of rod in tension, On substituting P=100 kN

y = 100 MPa we have d= 35.6 mm. Choose the rod diameter d = 40 mm which is the next standard size. Use the empirical relations to find the necessary dimensions and then check the failure criteria.

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d1= 40 mm t= 50 mm d2 = 80 mm t1= 30 mm d3 = 60 mm t2= 20 mm split pin diameter = 0.25d1 = 10 mm

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d1 = 55 mm d2 = 90 mm d3 = 60 mm

d= 40 mm

t= 50 mm t1= 30 mm t2= 20 mm

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