This document contains 9 questions about balancing reciprocating masses in engines. It asks about partial balancing of primary unbalanced forces, defines technical terms like variation in tractive force and swaying couple, asks about secondary unbalanced forces and determining balancing masses and couples for multi-cylinder radial and inline engines. It also includes sample problems calculating primary and secondary forces and couples for specific engine configurations running at various speeds.
This document contains 9 questions about balancing reciprocating masses in engines. It asks about partial balancing of primary unbalanced forces, defines technical terms like variation in tractive force and swaying couple, asks about secondary unbalanced forces and determining balancing masses and couples for multi-cylinder radial and inline engines. It also includes sample problems calculating primary and secondary forces and couples for specific engine configurations running at various speeds.
This document contains 9 questions about balancing reciprocating masses in engines. It asks about partial balancing of primary unbalanced forces, defines technical terms like variation in tractive force and swaying couple, asks about secondary unbalanced forces and determining balancing masses and couples for multi-cylinder radial and inline engines. It also includes sample problems calculating primary and secondary forces and couples for specific engine configurations running at various speeds.
This document contains 9 questions about balancing reciprocating masses in engines. It asks about partial balancing of primary unbalanced forces, defines technical terms like variation in tractive force and swaying couple, asks about secondary unbalanced forces and determining balancing masses and couples for multi-cylinder radial and inline engines. It also includes sample problems calculating primary and secondary forces and couples for specific engine configurations running at various speeds.
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ASSIGNMENT 3
Balancing of Reciprocating Masses
1. Discuss the partial balancing of unbalanced primary force in a reciprocating engine. 2. Define the following terms a) Variation in tractive force b) Swaying Couple c) Hammer Blow 3. What is secondary unbalanced force? 4. Derive an expression for variation in tractive force. 5. What are the conditions for complete balancing of multi cylinder Inline engine? 6. Discuss the concept of ‘Direct and Reverse Cranks’ for the balancing of multi cylinder radial engines. 7. An air compressor has four vertical cylinders 1, 2, 3 and 4 in line and the driving cranks at 90° intervals reach their uppermost position in this order. The cranks are of 150 mm radius, the connecting rods 500 mm long and the cylinder lines 400 mm apart. The reciprocating parts for each cylinder weigh 22.5 kg and the speed of rotation is 400 rpm. Show that there are no out of balance primary or secondary forces and determine the corresponding couples, indicating the position of No. 1 crank for maximum values. The central plane of the machine may be taken as reference plane. [Ans. 6664.95 Nm, 1495.84 Nm] 8. The cranks of a two cylinder uncoupled outside cylinder locomotive are at right angles and are 300 mm long. The distance between center lines of the cylinder is 1.75 m. The wheel center lines are 1.45 m apart. The rotating mass per cylinder is 300 kg. the whole of the rotating and two-thirds of the reciprocating masses are to be balanced in the plane of the driving wheels at a radius of 750 mm radius, then find: a) The magnitudes and angular positions of the balancing masses. b) The maximum speed of the locomotive in km/hr without lifting the wheels from the rails if the dead weight on each driving wheel is 30 kN and diameter of driving wheel is 1.8 m and c) Swaying couple at the maximum speed. [Ans. 249 kg each, 174.5° and 275°, 68.7 km/hr, 16687 Nm] 9. A 60° V engine has two cylinders which are placed symmetrically. The two connecting rods operate a common crank. The stroke is 120 mm and length of each connecting rod is 2 m. the mass of the reciprocating parts per cylinder is 1.25 kg. Determine the value of primary force when crank is rotating at a speed of 2000 rpm. [Ans. 4934.85N]