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Aswan University Eng. Machinery

Faculty of Engineering 1st, Year, Civil Sec.
Electrical Engineering Dept. Power Transmission

Sheet No. (1)

[1]- An engine drives a line of shafting by means of a belt. The driving pulley on
the engine shaft is 1.5 m diameter and that on the shafting is 1 m diameter. The
engine runs at 100 r.p.m. Find the speed of the shafting?
1- if there is no slip,
2- if the slip of the belt is 4%, and the thick is 10 mm.

[2]- Design a set of stepped pulleys for driving a lathe spindle at 100, 120, and 150
r.p.m. from a counter-shaft running at 80 r.p.m. The radius of smaller pulley is to
be 0.15 m and the distance between the lathe spindle and the counter shaft is is 3 m,
and the same belt is to be used for all the three drivers. Calculate; also the length of
belt required?

[3]- The speed of a belt is 12 m/s, and it transmits 60 kW. Find the difference of
tension on the two sides;
If the tension in the belt tight side is twice the tension in the slack
side, find the two tensions and the width of belt necessary if the maximum
permissible tension at 50 N/mm width of belt?

[4]- A rope has four runs round a post. A weight of 100 kN has to be supported at
one end of the rope. Find the effort required at the other end if the coefficient of
friction is 0.3.

[5]- An open belt of width 80 mm connects a pulley of diameter 0.6 mon the
secondary shaft to a pulley of diameter 0.4 m on the machine shaft. The shafts are
three meter apart. The secondary shaft has a speed of 100 r.p.m. Find the maximum
power transmitted if the maximum permissible stress in the belt is 15 N/mm width
and µ = 0.3.

[6]- An open belt connects two flat pulleys. The smaller pulley is 0.25 m in
diameter and runs at 200 r.p.m. The angle of lap on the pulley is 160 degree angle
and the coefficient of friction between the belt and pulley face is 0.25. The belt is on
the point of slipping when 10 kW is being transmitted.
Which of the following alternatives would be more effective in increasing the
power which could be transmitted:

a- increasing the initial tension in the belt by 10%?

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B- increasing the coefficient of friction by 10%by the application of -a

suitable dressing to the belt?

[7]- The centers of two pulleys of diameters 120 mm and 240 mm are 300 mm
apart. They are connected by an open belt. If the coefficient of friction for the larger
pulley be 0.25, when would be its value for the smaller pulley so that the belt may be
on the point of slipping on both the pulleys simultaneously?

[8]- Power transmitted between two shafts 3.5 m apart by a crossed belt drive
round two pulleys 0.6 m and 0.3 m in diameters is 6 kW. The speed of the larger
pulley is 220 r.p.m. The permissible load on the belt is 25 N per mm width of the
belt which is 5 mm thick. The coefficient of friction between the smaller pulley
surface and the belt is 0.35. Determine;
a- the necessary length of the belt,
b- the width of the belt, and
c-the necessary initial tension in the belt.

[9]- A shaft running at 100 r.p.m. drives another shaft at 200 r.p.m. and transmits
11.25 kW. The belt is 100 mm wide and 12 mm thick and µ = 0.25. The distance
between the shafts is 2.5 m and the diameter of the smaller pulley is 0.5 m.
calculate; the stress in:
a- an open belt,
b- a crossed belt, connecting the two pulleys.

[10]- Two parallel shafts whose center lines are 4.8 m apart are connected by an
open belt drive. The diameter of the larger pulley is 1.5 m, and that of the smaller
pulley is 1 m. The initial tension in the belt, where stationary, is 3 kN. The mass of
the material is 1.5 kg/m length and the coefficient of friction between the belt and
pulley is 0.3. Calculate; the power transmitted, when the smaller pulley rotates at
400 r.p.m.

[11]- A rope drive is required to transmit 1MW from a pulley of 1 m diameter

running at 450 r.p.m. The safe pull in each rope is 22.5 kN and the rope has mass of
1 kg/m. The angle of lap is 150 degree angle.
Find the number of ropes required for the drive, if the coefficient of friction
between the rope and the pulley is 0.3.
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