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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ME 307 - Analysis and Design of Machine Components Assignment I A

1. Define stress concentration and stress concentration factor. 2. Explain size factor in endurance strength. Size factor is used to consider the effect of the size on 3. Explain Griffith theory. 4. State the condition for crack growth. 5. What are the modes of fracture? 6. Determine the thickness of a 120mm wide uniform plate for safe continuous operation if the plate is to be subjected to a tensile load that has a maximum value of 1000N.The properties of the plate materials are as follows. Endurance limit stress is 225MPa and yield point stress is 300MPa. The factor of safety based on yield point may be taken as 1.5. 7. A hot rolled bar of steel is subjected to a torsional load varying from-150N-m to 450N-m. Determine the required diameter of the bar using a factor of safety of 1.7. Properties of the material may be assumed as follows. Ultimate tensile stress = 450MPa Yield stress = 300MPa 8. In the figure 1 shown, shaft A, made of AISI 1010 hot-rolled steel, is welded to a fixed support and is subjected to loading by equal and opposite forces F via shaft B. A theoretical stress concentration Kts of 1.6 is induced by the 3-mm fillet. The length of shaft A from the fixed support to the connection at shaft B is 1 m. The load F cycles from 0.5 to 2 kN. (a) For shaft A, find the factor of safety for infinite life using the modified Goodman fatigue failure criterion. (b) Repeat part (a) using the Gerber fatigue failure criterion.

Figure 1 9. A round rod of diameter 1.2d has semicircular groove of diameter 0.2d. This rod is to sustain a twisting moment that fluctuates between 2.5 kN-m and 1.5 kN-m together with a bending moment that fluctuates between +2kN-m and -1 kN-m. Take y = 300 MPa, u = 450 MPa and factor of safety = 2.5. Find suitable diameter of the shaft.

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