BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

First Semester 2010-11

ME C312 Design of Machine Elements
Comprehensive Examination -PART-B (Open Book)
Date: 06-12-2010 Max Marks: 60 Duration: 50 min
Note: All abbreviations and notations are as per text book.

Q1). An empty air compressor cylinder of the joint leak proof. Stiffness of bolt and gasket
effective diameter 300 mm is filled to air are180x103 N/mm and 540x103 N/mm
pressure of 1.5 N/mm2. The cylinder head is respectively. Assume factor of safety of 2. By
connected by means of 8 bolts of ISO 12.9 using Goodman equation, determine the
class. The bolts are tightened with an initial required tensile area of the bolt under the given
preload force of 1.5 times that of the maximum variable pressures. [20M]
external force. A copper gasket is used to make

Q2). The figure shows a double-reduction a) Find the total radial and axial forces acting
helical gear set. A steel (E=207 GPa & ν=0.292) on bearing ‘D’
pinion manufactured by milling is the driver, b) If both gear 3 and pinion is made of same
rotates at 600 rpm, and it receives a torque of material, find the induced bending and contact
1800 N-m from its shaft in the direction shown. stress on the pinion teeth.
The pinion has a face width of 50 mm, normal c) If a rated life of the bearing is 108
module of 3, 14 teeth, and a normal pressure revolutions, select a suitable 03-series roller
angle of 20◦ and is cut right-handed with a helix bearing at ‘C’ with 90% reliability for a life of
angle of 30◦. The mating gear 3 on shaft ‘b’ has 5 years at 8 hrs/day [25M]
36 teeth. Gear 4, which is the driver for the
second pair of gears in the train, have a normal
module of 2.5, 15 teeth, and a normal pressure
angle of 20◦ and is cut left-handed with a helix
angle of 15◦. Mating gear 5 has 45 teeth. If
bearing ‘C’ is subjected to only radial load
while bearing ‘D’ is subjected to both radial as
well as the total thrust load (both thrust loads
are in same direction) developed on shaft ‘b’.
Assume that the resultant radial loads generated
by gear 3 and gear 4 on shaft ‘b’ are opposite to
each other.
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Q3). A multi-plate clutch is designed to transmit the allowable pressure is 0.18MPa, find the
15kW power at 1500rpm. The clutch is fitted maximum and the minimum force needed to
with steel and phosphor-bronze plates and run in fully engage the brake. When the brake is
oil (µ=0.03). This allows for uniform engaged, which assembly i.e the clutch or the
distribution of pressure of 1.0346MPa. The brake – will start to slip first? Why? [20M]
maximum torque that may be transmitted is
30% greater than the mean torque. The clutch is
driven by a shaft of allowable shear stress
65.72MPa. Assume the inside diameter of the
friction plates is twice the standard diameter of
the shaft and the outer diameter is three times
the inner diameter. Find the number of plates
required.
The clutch is coupled to a simple leather
band brake (µ=0.4) shown in figure 3, capable Figure 3
of dissipating 45kW power at 400rpm. For
every 200 rpm above the nominal speed, the
brake assembly should be de-rated by 2kW. If

Q4).
A safety valve operated by a helical tension wire diameter, stiffness and the active number
spring through the lever mechanism is of turns in the spring. [15M]
schematically shown in figure 4. The diameter
of the valve is 50 mm. In normal operating
conditions, the valve is closed and the pressure
inside the chamber is 0.5 MPa. The valve opens
when the pressure inside the chamber increases
to 0.6 MPa. The maximum lift of the valve is 5
mm. The spring is made of cold drawn steel of
ultimate strength 1200 MPa and modulus of
rigidity of 81370 N/mm2. Allowable shear stress
for the spring wire is 30% of the ultimate tensile
strength. The spring index is 8. Find the spring Figure 4