This document contains 6 questions related to kinematics of machinery. The questions cover topics like cam design, gear trains, cam profiles, mechanisms, brakes, and belt drives. The questions involve calculating velocities, accelerations, mechanical advantage, braking torque, and maximum power transmission given various machine part dimensions, speeds, coefficients of friction, and other mechanical specifications.
This document contains 6 questions related to kinematics of machinery. The questions cover topics like cam design, gear trains, cam profiles, mechanisms, brakes, and belt drives. The questions involve calculating velocities, accelerations, mechanical advantage, braking torque, and maximum power transmission given various machine part dimensions, speeds, coefficients of friction, and other mechanical specifications.
This document contains 6 questions related to kinematics of machinery. The questions cover topics like cam design, gear trains, cam profiles, mechanisms, brakes, and belt drives. The questions involve calculating velocities, accelerations, mechanical advantage, braking torque, and maximum power transmission given various machine part dimensions, speeds, coefficients of friction, and other mechanical specifications.
This document contains 6 questions related to kinematics of machinery. The questions cover topics like cam design, gear trains, cam profiles, mechanisms, brakes, and belt drives. The questions involve calculating velocities, accelerations, mechanical advantage, braking torque, and maximum power transmission given various machine part dimensions, speeds, coefficients of friction, and other mechanical specifications.
1. Design a cam for operating the exhaust valve of an oil engine. It is required to give equal uniform acceleration and retardation during opening and closing of the valve each of which corresponds to 60° of cam rotation. The valve must remain in the fully open position for 20° of cam rotation. The lift of the valve is 37.5 mm and the least radius of the cam is 40 mm. The follower is provided with a roller of radius 20 mm and its line of stroke passes through the axis of the cam.
2. Fig. 1 shows diagrammatically a compound epicyclic gear train. Wheels A, D and E are free to rotate independently on spindle O, while B and C are compound and rotate together on spindle P, on the end of arm OP. All the teeth on different wheels have the same module. A has 12 teeth, B has 30 teeth and C has 14 teeth cut externally. Find the number of teeth on wheels D and E which are cut internally. If the wheel A is driven clockwise at 1 r.p.s. while D is driven counter clockwise at 5 r.p.s., determine the magnitude and direction of the angular velocities of arm OP and wheel E.
Fig. 1 3. A cam operating a knife-edged follower has the following data: (a) Follower moves outwards through 40 mm during 60° of cam rotation. (b) Follower dwells for the next 45°. (c) Follower returns to its original position during next 90°. (d) Follower dwells for the rest of the rotation.
The displacement of the follower is to take place with simple harmonic motion during both the outward and return strokes. The least radius of the cam is 50 mm. Draw the profile of the cam when the axis of the follower passes through the cam axis. If the cam rotates at 300 r.p.m., determine maximum velocity and acceleration of the follower during the outward stroke and the return stroke.
4. A four bar mechanism has the following dimensions:
DA = 300 mm; CB = AB = 360 mm; DC = 600 mm. The link DC is fixed and the angle ADC is 60°. The driving link DA rotates uniformly at a speed of 100 r.p.m. clockwise and the constant driving torque has the magnitude of 50 N-m. Determine the velocity of the point B and angular velocity of the driven link CB. Also find the actual mechanical advantage and the resisting torque if the efficiency of the mechanism is 70 per cent.
5. A simple band brake is operated by a lever of length 500 mm. The brake drum has a diameter of 500 mm and the brake band embraces 5/8 of the circumference. One end of the band is attached to the fulcrum of the lever while the other end is attached to a pin on the lever 100 mm from the fulcrum. If the effort applied to the end of the lever is 2 kN and the coefficient of friction is 0.25, find the maximum braking torque on the drum. 6. A blower is driven by an electric motor though a belt drive. The motor runs at 750 r.p.m. For this power transmission, a flat belt of 8 mm thickness and 250 mm width is used. The diameter of the motor pulley is 350 mm and that of the blower pulley 1350 mm. The centre distance between these pulleys is 1350 mm and an open belt configuration is adopted. The pulleys are made out of cast iron.
The frictional coefficient between the belt and pulley is 0.35 and the permissible stress for the belt material can be taken as 2.5 N/mm2 with sufficient factor of safety. The mass of a belt is 2 kg per metre length. Find the maximum power transmitted without belt slipping in any one of the pulleys. **************
