EMD Question Bank II 2

Mechanical Engineering Department
Academic Year 2022-23

QUESTION BANK-II
Course : ELEMENTS OF MACHINE DESIGN(22564)
Design of Power screws , screw fasteners, and welded joints
(a) Design of Power Screws.
1. Sketch the type of thread profiles used in power screw.
2. What are the advantages of acme thread over square threads?
3. Why square thread is preferred over “V” thread for power transmission?
4. Why acme threads are stronger than square threads.
5. Define efficiency of power screw. Write equation for it.
6. What is self locking screw? What is condition for it?
7. What is overhauling screw? Write condition for it.
8. Show that efficiency of self locking screw is always less than 50%.
9. The lead screw of a lathe has acme threads of 50mm outside diameter and 8mm pitch. The screw must exert
axial pressure of 2500N in order to drive the tool carriage. Thrust is carried on collar 110mm outside diameter
and 55mm inner diameter and lead screw rotate at 30 RPM. Determine tee power required to drive the screw.
Assume coefficient of thread friction of 015 and collar friction 0.12.
10. A power screw having double start square thread of 25 mm nominal diameter and 5 mm pitch is acted upon
by an 10KN axial load. Assuming coefficient of thread friction of 0.2 and neglecting collar friction, determine,
(1) Torque required to raise the load,(2) torque required to lower the load, (3) efficiency of screw and write
condition of screw.
11. The screw jack carries the load of 25KN. If the coefficient of friction between screw and nut is 0.15. design
screw and nut neglecting column effect and collar friction. Take for screw f c =42N/mm2 and fs=30N/mm2. For
nut fs=20N/mm2. Permissible bearing stress on the nut is 14N/mm2.
12. A single start square threded screw is to be design for a C-clamp. The axial load on the screw may be assumed
to be 10KN. A thrust pad is attached at the end of the screw whose mean diameter may be taken as 30mm. the
coefficient of friction for screw thread and for thrust pads is 0.12 and 0.08 respectivily. The allowable tensile
strength of screw is 60MPa and the allowable bearing pressure is 12N/mm 2. Design the screw and nut. The
square threads are as under,
Nominal Diameter , mm 16 18 20 22
Core diameter, mm 13 15 17 19
Pitch, mm 3 3 3 3
13. A screw jack carries a load of 22KN. Assume the coefficient of friction between screw and nut is 0.15, design the
screw and nut. Neglect collar friction and column effect/action. The permissible compressive and shear
stresses in the screw should not exceed 42MPa and 28MPa respectively. The shear stress in nut should not
exceed 21MPa. The bearing pressure on the nut is 14N/mm 2. Also determine the effort required at the handle
of 200mm length in order to raise and lower the load. What will be the efficiency of screw?
(B) Design of threaded and welded joints.

01. Sketch various thread profiles used for V threads.
02. What is preload/initial tension in bolt? List the stress produce in bolt due to preload.
03. What are advantages and disadvantages of screwed joints?
04. What is bolt of uniform strength? Give method of obtaining bolt of uniform strength.
05. Define welding process. List various welding types.
06. Define butt weld and fillet weld.
07. Draw the symbol of single “V” butt weld, double “V” butt weld, square butt weld, spot weld, “U” butt
weld.
08. List stress produce in butt weld and fillet welds.
09. Write strength equation for design of butt welded joints?
10. Write strength equation for design of single transverse fillet weld joints and double transverse fillet weld
joints along with sketch of joints.
11. Write strength equation for design of single parallel fillet weld joints and double parallel fillet weld joints
along with sketch of joints.
12. List the stress in produce in transverse fillet weld and parallel fillet weld when joint is subjected to axial
load.
13. Give the design procedure for design of screw joint subjected to eccentric load parallel to bolt axis.
14. Give the design procedure for design of screw joint subjected to eccentric load perpendicular to bolt axis.
15. A dead load of 80KN is to be lifted by an eye bolt. The bolt is made from steel with ultimate tensile
strength of 400N/mm2. Take factor of safety as 4. Find nominal diameter of bolt.
16. Determine safe tensile load for the bolts of M20 and M36. Assume the bolts are not initially stressed (no
preload) and take safe tensile stress as 200 N/mm2.
17. Double acting steam engine having 360mm cylinder diameter works on maximum steam pressure of
1 KN/mm2. Absolute and backpressure of 0.30 N/mm2. Determine diameter of screw end of piston rod
whose permissible stress in tension is 60 N/mm2
18. A plate 75mm wide and 12.5 mm thick is joined with another plate by single transverse weld and a double
parallel fillet weld as shown in figure below. The maximum tensile and shear stress are 70MPa and 56MPa
respectively.
19. A plate of 100mm wide and 10mm thick is to be welded to another plate by means of double parallel fillet
welds. The plate is subjected to static load of 80KN. Taking permissible shear stress in weld materials as
50 N/mm2. determine length of weld.
20. A bracket shown in figure support a load of 30KN. Determine the size of bolt, if the maximum permissible
tensile stress in bolt material is 60MPa.
21. The CI bracket is fixed to the wall by four M.S. bolt in two row. Lower bolts are 60mm away from lower
edge of bracket. Center distance between bolt axes is 120mm. load of 40KN acts perpendicular to the bolt
axis 175mm away from wall. Sketch arrangement of bolted assembly and determine size of bolts if
permissible stress in bolts in tension and shear is 70 N/mm2 and 50 N/mm2 respectively.
Design of springs.
1. List the different types of springs used in engineering applications.
2. Draw the sketch of helical compression, helical torsion and semi elliptical leaf springs.
3. List the functions of the springs.
4. List the stress induced in helical compression spring subjected to axial load, torsion spring and leaves of leaf
spring.
5. Define following terms (1) Spring Index, (2) Spring rate, (3) solid length, (4) free length (5) active and inactive
turns/coils.
6. List the various materials used for helical and leaf springs.
7. Give practical application of (1) Helical Tension spring, (2) Leaf spring, (3) Helical torsion spring, (4) Spiral
torsion spring.
8. What is significance of Wahl’s stress factor. Draw the graph of Wahl’s stress factor vs spring index.
9. Explain the different end conditions of helical compression spring.
10. Explain the springs in series and parallel.
11. A helical spring of stiffness 12N/mm is placed on the top of the other spring having stiffness 8N/mm. find the
force required to give a total deflection of 50mm.(case of spring connected in series)
12. A closed coil helical spring of 12 active coils has spring stiffness of “K”. it is cut into two springs having 5 and
7 turns. Determine the spring stiffness of resultant springs.
13. Design the helical compression spring for maximum load of 1200N and deflection of 30 mm. Spring index is 5.
The maximum permissible shear stress for spring wire is 420N/mm2 and modulus of rigidity is 84K N/mm2.
14. Design closed coil helical compression spring for a service load ranging from 2207N to 2698N. The axial
deflection of spring is 6mm. take spring index as 5. The permissible shear stress is 390N/mm 2. Modulus of
rigidity is 84KN/mm2. Neglect effect of stress concentration. Draw the sketch of spring.
15. A close coil helical spring is used for front suspension of an automobile. The spring has stiffness 90N/mm
with square and ground ends. The load on the spring causes a total deflection of 8.5mm. by taking permissible
shear stress in spring materials as 450Mpa. Find (i) spring wire diameter. (ii) length of springs take spring
index 6 and modulus of rigidity 80000N/ mm2 .
16. A helical spring is made from wire of 8mm diameter and has outside diameter 90mm; if the permissible shear
stress is 350 N/mm2 and modulus of rigidity is 84 N/mm2, find axial load which spring can carry and
deflection per unit turn, (i) considering curvature effect and Neglecting curvature effect.
17. A rail wagon of mass 20 tons is moving with a velocity of 2 M/sec. it is brought to rest by two buffer spring of
300mm mean diameter. Maximum deflection in spring is 250mm. allowable shaer stress in the spring material
is 600MPa. Design the spring for buffers.
18. Design and draw a valve spring of a petrol engine for following specifications.
(a) Spring load when valve is open-400N
(b) Spring load when valve is closed-250N
(c) Maximum inside diameter of spring-25mm
(d) Length of spring when valve is open-40mm
(e) Length of spring when valve is closed-50mm
(f) Max. Permissible stress is 400MPa.
19. Draw the load vs deflection graph for linear, hard and soft spring.
20. Using deflection equation of helical spring prove that stiffness of spring is inversely proportional to no of
active turns.
Selection of antifriction bearings and gears
01. Give classification of bearings.
02. Give classification of rolling contact bearings.
03. Compare rolling contact bearing with sliding contact bearing on different parameters.
04. State one applications of (a) deep Groove ball bearing, (b) Taper roller Bearings, (c) Thrust
Bearing, (d) Needle bearing.
05. State advantages of rolling contact bearing over sliding contact bearing.
06. List materials used for bearings.
07. Define the terms Basic static load rating and Basic dynamic load rating and Life of bearing.
08. State the steps involved in selection of a proper ball bearing from manufacturer’s catalogue.
09. List the applications of gear drive.
10. What are the materials used for manufacturing gears?.
11. List the design considerations, while designing the spur gears.
12. State different modes of failure of gear teeth and suggest possible remedies to avoid the
failure.
13. Write lewis equation for beam strength of gear tooth. Give meaning of each term in
equation.
14. Define static tooth load of gear.
15. State meaning of dynamic tooth load. Write equation for it.
16. Define wear tooth load for gear. State its equation and meaning of notations used.
17. Write down design steps in designing spur gear.
18. Explain following terms releted to gear tooth failure,
(a) Pitting (b) Scoring (c) Abrasive Wear.

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(B) Design of threaded and welded joints.

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