Simple Mechanisms: (2 Marks) 1. What Are The Materials Used For Making Ropes?

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SIMPLE MECHANISMS

NOTE: Very short answer type question


(2 marks)

1. Define kinematics.
2. Define resistant body.
3. Define rigid link.
4. Define constrained motion.
5. Define kinematic pair.
6. What are lower pair and higher pair?
7. Define link.
8. Define mechanism.
9. Define inversion of mechanism.
10. Name the link which do not distort while transmitting motion.
11. Function of indicator mechanism.
12. Name two inversion of double slider crank.

NOTE: Short answer type question.


(4 marks)

1. Difference between a structure and machine.


2. Difference between open and closed pairs.
3. What do you mean by a kinematic chain?
4. Difference between kinematic pair and kinematic chain.
5. Difference between mechanism and machine.
6. Explain with examples mechanism, a machine, and slider-crank chain.
7. What is the significance of degree of freedom of a kinematic chain
when it works as a mechanism? Explain with example.

NOTE: Long answer type questions.


(10 marks)

1. Explain whit worth quick return mechanism.


2. Explain Crank and slotted lever type quick return mechanism.
3. Name different types of mechanism and explain four bar chain.

POWER TRANSMISSION
NOTE: Very short answer type questions.
(2 marks)

1. What are the materials used for making ropes?


2. What is the groove angle of V belt sheaves normally? State (range).
3. What is the condition for transmission of maximum power in belts?
4. What is creep of belt and its effect?
5. What is the low gearing?
6. Explain crowing in pulleys.
7. What is velocity ratio in belt or rope drive?
8. Define slip in belts.
9. What is creep?
10.What is low of belting?
11.Give the relation between maximum tension and centrifugal tension for
maximum power transmission in belt drive.
12.Write the function of gear.
13.What is helical gear?
14.Define pitch circle.
15.Define module.
16.Define circular pitch.
17.Define addendum.
18.Define clearance.
19.Define backlash.
20.Define dedendum circle.
21.What are metre gears?
22.What is reverted gear train?

NOTE: Short answer type questions.


(4 marks)

1. Differentiate flat and V belt drive.


2. Name the gears used for connecting parallel shafts.
3. Give a few advantages of v-belt drive over flat belt drive.
4. Explain various types of belt drives.
5. Give the concept of slip in belt drive. How it is expressed.
6. Explain the pulley types.
7. Obtain a note on crowning for the length of an open belt.
8. What is centrifugal tension in a belt .How does it effect the power
transmission.
9. Determine the pitch circle diameter, diametral pitch and module of a toothed
gear having 36 teeth circular pitch of 13 mm.
10.What are the advantages and disadvantages of chain drive over belt or rope
drive?
11.What are the different types chains used for power transmission?
12.A toothed wheel has 108 teeth. Its module is 1.25 mm. Find the circular pitch,
diameteral pitch and pitch circle diameter.
13.Give the advantages and disadvantages of gear drive over a other drive.
14.Name of the gears used for connecting parallel shafts.
15.Give the classification of gears according to type of meshing.
16.Explain gear tooth terminology.
17. Differentiate between Cycloid and in volute tooth gears.
18.Write the advantages of in volute gears.
19.Write the advantages of cycloid gears.
20.Explain epicyclic gears train.
21.Explain compound gears train. Where it is preferred.
22.Explain reverted gears train.

NOTE: Long answer type questions.


(10 marks)

1. (a) Differentiate between spur gears, bevel gears and spiral gears.
(b) Explain circular pitch, race flank with neat sketches on the spur gears.
2. .Initial tension in a belt connecting two pulleys is 1000 n, the minimum angle
of the belt is 150 degree and the coefficient of friction between belt and
pulley rim is 0.25. Determine the value of tension on the light and the slack
ends the power transmitted if the speed of the belt is 600 m/min.
3. A pulley running at 200 r.p.m drives another pulley at 400 r.p.m. It transmits
10 kw through an open belt. The width and thickness of the belt is 70 mm
and 10 mm respectively. The center distance between the pulleys is 5 m. the
smaller pulley is of 600 mm diameter and the coefficient of friction between
the belt and pulley is 0.25. Calculate the stress in the belt.
4. The pulleys of diameters 450 mm and 200 mm mounted on two parallel
shafts 1.5 meters apart are connected by leather belt 150 mm wide. if the
maximum safe tension of the belt is 15 N/mm width , calculate the maximum
power transmitted in case of (i) open belt drive ,(ii) crossed belt drive. Take
speed of belt as 9 m/s and the coefficient of friction between the and pulley
rim as 0.25.
5. A flat belt 8mm thick and 100mm wide transmits power between two pulley
running at 160m/min. The mass of belt is 0.9Kg/m length. The angle of lap in
the smaller pulley is 165 degree and the coefficient of friction between belt
and pulley is 0.3. If max permissible stress is 2MN/m 2 .find
(a) Maximum power transmitted
(b) Initial tension in the belt
6. A toothed gear A is to drive another toothed gear B. The centre to centre
distance between their axes of rotation is to be exactly 375 mm. Speed of
gear gear A is to be 500 r.p.m. and approximate speed of gear B is 350 r.p.m.
If each gear is of module 5, determine what should be the number of teeth of
each gear? In that case, what would be the actual speed of B? Assume that
gears are available with their teeth number divisible by 5.
7. A total speed reduction of 20 to 1 is required in two steps by means of spur
gears. The smallest wheel has 20 teeth, the largest 120 teeth and number of
teeth on intermediate gears increase in steps of 5. A choose a suitable train
of gears and also calculate the number of teeth on each gear and give a
sketch of gear train.

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