Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Max. Marks: 75
Note: Answer all questions of Part - A and answer any five questions from Part-B.
PART A (25 Marks)
1. What is concentric spring? Enumerate the advantages.
2. What is nip of leaf spring? Explain.
3. Compare the beam strength of spur and helical gears.
4. Sketch bevel and worm gears and show the forces acting on it.
5. Describe the assumptions in differential equation derived by Osborne Reynold for
theory of hydrodynamics lubrication.
6. What is L10 and L10h life of the bearing?
7. Describe the materials used and their properties for piston and connecting rod.
8. What are design considerations for the fly wheel used in IC Engines?
9. How curved beam theory of bending is different from straight bending ? Explain.
10. Mention the criteria for the design of machine frames.
PART B (5x10=50 Marks)
11. A helical compression spring is required to deflect through 25mm when the
external force acting on it varies from 500 to 1000N. The spring index is 8. The
spring has square and ground ends. There should be a gap of 2mm between
adjacent coils when the spring is subjected to the maximum force of 1000N. The
spring is made of cold drawn steel wire with ultimate tensile strength of 1000
MPa, and permissible shear strength is 500 MPa, G=81370 MPa. Design the
spring the calculate : (i) wire diameter (ii) Mean coil diameter (iii) number of active
coils (iv) total number of coils (v) solid length (vi) free length.
12. A semi elliptic leaf spring used for automobile suspension consists of three extra
full length leaves and 15 graduated leaves including the master leaf. The centre to
centre distance between two eyes of the spring is 1.5m. The maximum force acting
on spring is 100 kN. For each leaf the ratio of width to thickness is 9:1.E=200GPa,
the leaves are prestressed in such a way that when the force is maximum, the
stresses induced in all leaves are same and equal to 450MPa. Determine (i) the
width and thickness of leaves, (ii) the initial nip; and (iii) the initial preload required
to close the gap C between extra full length leaves and graduated length leaves.
13. A steel pinion with 20o full depth involute teeth is transmitting 7.5 kW power at
1000 rpm from an electric motor. The starting torque of the motor is twice the rated
torque. The number of teeth on pinion is 25, while module is 4mm. The face width
is 45mm. Assuming that velocity factor accounts for the dynamic calculate (i) the
effective load on the gear tooth; and (ii) the bending stresses in gear tooth.
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