ME 418 first Assignment Questions. 29th September, 2023.

Make sure you solve the problems on your own. To be submitted before 6th October 2023.
1. Write a full page note on gear drives giving their merits and demerits.
2. How are the gears classified and what are the various terms used in spur gear terminology?
Explain your answer using neat sketches.
3. What condition must be satisfied in order that a pair of spur gears may have a constant
velocity ratio?
4. State the two most important reasons for adopting involute curves for a gear tooth profile.
5. A 15 kW and 1200 r.p.m. motor drives a compressor at 300 r.p.m. through a pair of spur
gears having 20° stub teeth. The centre to centre distance between the shafts is 400 mm.
The motor pinion is made of forged steel having an allowable static stress as 210 MPa,
while the gear is made of cast steel having allowable static stress as 140 MPa. Assuming
that the drive operates 8 to 10 hours per day under light shock conditions, find from the
standpoint of strength, 1. Module; 2. Face width and 3. Number of teeth and pitch circle
diameter of each gear. Check the gears thus designed from the consideration of wear. The
surface endurance limit may be taken as 700 MPa. [Ans. m = 6 mm ; b = 60 mm ; Tp =
24 Tg = 96 ; Dp = 144mm ; Dg = 576 mm]
6. How are bevel gears are classified? Explain with neat sketches.
7. Sketch neatly the working drawing of bevel gears in mesh.
8. For bevel gears, define the following: (i) Cone distance; (ii) Pitch angle; (iii) Face angle;
(iv) Root angle; (v) Back cone distance; and (vi) Crown height.
9. Discuss, with neat sketches, the various types of worms and worm gears.
10. Define the following terms used in worm gearing :
(a) Lead; (b) Lead angle; (c) Normal pitch; and (d) Helix angle.
11. What are the various forces acting on worm and worm gears?
12. Design an analogue clock using spur gears.