Mechanical Engineering Department

Institute of Technology
Nirma University
Machine Design I (2ME403)
Innovative assignment
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Figure 1 shows a childs toy called Pogo Stick. The child stands on the pads,
applying half of his weight on each side. He jumps off the ground, holding the
pads up against his feet, and bounces along with the spring cushioning the
impact and storing the energy to help him rebound. Assume a 25 kg child and a
spring constant of 18 N/mm. The pogo stick weighs 2.5 kg. Design the
aluminum cantilever beam section on which he stands to survive jumping 50mm
off the ground with a dynamic safety factor as 2 for a finite life of 50000 cycles.
Use suitable aluminum grade. Prepare the dimensional drawing of the beam
shape.
An inline roller blade skate is shown in figure 2. The polyurethane wheels are
72 mm diameter and spaced on 104 mm centers. The skate foot combination
weighs 2 kg. The effective spring rate of the person skate system is 6000 N/m.
The axles are 10 mm dia steel pins in double shear with S yt = 400MPa and Sut =
550 MPa. Find the safety factors for the pins when a 100kg person lands a 0.5 m
jump on one foot.
1. assume that all four wheels land simultaneously
2. Assume that one wheel absorbs all the landing forces
For the example 2, find the infinite life fatigue safety factor for pin for both
conditions
The figure 3 shows a machined pivot pin that is press fit into part A and slip fit in
part B. if F = 100N, l = 50 mm and d = 16 mm, what is the pins safety factor
against fatigue when made of SAE 1020 cold rolled steel? The loading is fully
reversed and a reliability of 90% is desired. The bending stress concentration
factor kt = 1.8 at the section where the pin leaves the part A on the right hand
side.

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