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Power Transmission Design Project EGMN 300-001-32729 Mechanical Systems Design Fall 2016 Engineering Building West Classroom 0101 0800-0915, Tuesday & Thursday

This document provides instructions for a power transmission design project assigned in EGMN 300 Mechanical Systems Design. Students are tasked with designing a power transmission system to deliver 35 horsepower over 10 years of continuous operation. The document outlines the required report format, including sections for the summary, conclusions, recommendations, introduction, design requirements, specifications, final design, design discussion, calculations, and references. Students are advised to start report writing early, carefully check units, present calculations in Maple worksheets, prepare drawings in CAD, and ensure all aspects of the report are traceable to sources. Collaboration is permitted, but each student must submit their own unique work.

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Power Transmission Design Project EGMN 300-001-32729 Mechanical Systems Design Fall 2016 Engineering Building West Classroom 0101 0800-0915, Tuesday & Thursday

This document provides instructions for a power transmission design project assigned in EGMN 300 Mechanical Systems Design. Students are tasked with designing a power transmission system to deliver 35 horsepower over 10 years of continuous operation. The document outlines the required report format, including sections for the summary, conclusions, recommendations, introduction, design requirements, specifications, final design, design discussion, calculations, and references. Students are advised to start report writing early, carefully check units, present calculations in Maple worksheets, prepare drawings in CAD, and ensure all aspects of the report are traceable to sources. Collaboration is permitted, but each student must submit their own unique work.

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Power Transmission Design Project

EGMN 30000132729
Mechanical Systems Design
Fall 2016
Engineering Building West Classroom 0101
08000915, Tuesday & Thursday
Instructor: Robert M. Sexton
Office Room E2249
vox: 804.827.7044
email: [email protected]

Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering


School of Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University
401 West Main Street
Room E3221
Post Office Box 843015
Richmond, Virginia 232843015
vox: 804.828.9177

Revision 01: 2016.11.22


Issued: 2016.11.18

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Contents
1 Design Project Overview 2

2 Design Requirements 2

3 Report Format 3

4 Guidance 5
1 Design Project Overview
Successful completion of the Design Project is a requirement for the course EGMN
300 Mechanical Systems Design.
The original Design Project is described in our Shigley textbook1 in Section 118,
Power Transmission Case Study Specifications, and in Chapter 18, Power Trans-
mission Case Study.
Please note, as described below, we will adjust some of the textbook input design
requirements for this Design Project. Therefore, with these changes, you must
produce an unique design following the steps outlined in the textbook.

2 Design Requirements
The original input Power Transmission Design Requirements are presented in
Section 118 of the Shigley textbook.
For the present project, the following items are changed from that presented in the
textbook:

1. Power to be delivered: 35 [hp].

2. 10year life of continuous operation.

All the other Design Requirements remain unchanged.


N.B.: If you are not able to meet all of the Design Requirements, clearly state the
difficulty and provide a reasonable and practical alternative.
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references in this document to Shigley textbook or textbook refer to the required
textbook for this course: Richard G. Budynas and J. Keith Nisbett, Shigleys Mechanical Engi-
neering Design, Tenth Edition, 2015, McGrawHill, ISBN 9780073398204. Please consult
the Course Documents section of Blackboard to see if a List of Errata is available. Please refer
to the website http://www.mhhe.com/shigley for more information about the textbook and
additional resources.

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3 Report Format
The Design Project Final Report must present the following:

1. Final Design.

2. All input data and all assumed data.

3. Design calculations and references.

4. The sources of all information, equations, data, assumptions, etc.

The target audience for this report is your client who requested the design. Your
report must be professional, neat, comprehensive, and typed. The report must
be in a visually appealing format so as to instill confidence to the reader (client)
that you, as the engineering designer, are a competent professional engineer that
knows what you are doing.
Use the following report format:

1. Summary. Present a brief summary of the highlights of your final design.


An illustration here is very useful to the reader.
Present key points of the design project, input data, assumptions, and final
design.
If any design targets were not achieved, then you must mention this up front
and not hide in the report. Honesty and forthrightness are very essential in
the engineering profession.

2. Conclusions. Briefly list main conclusions of the design effort. The reader
may be interested in the total weight [lbf] or mass [kg] of your design and
other key design features. Presenting key data in table format is very useful.

3. Recommendations. If you have any recommendations for future efforts or


refinements and improvements to the design, then mention these items here.

4. Introduction. Give brief background and key information on the project,


i.e., who requested the project, how it was performed, etc.

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5. Design Requirements. Present the Design Requirements originally speci-
fied by the client.
It is very important to identify any requirements that you were not able to
achieve.

6. Design Specifications. Present the final project Design Specifications that


you developed and proposed based on the input Design Requirements.
Reference the Design Codes, Standards, etc., used in the design process.
Specify the Design Factors and the realised Factors of Safety.

7. Final Design. Present the Final Design. Include CAD Drawings and im-
ages, as appropriate. Present key data of the design in tables and drawings.
You must reference the source of all items taken from catalogues and Inter-
net sources.

8. Discussion of Final Design. Discuss the features of your Final Design.


Include The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of your design. Be honest!
As H. Ross Perot of Texas says, Time is not our friend. Additional time
and iterations on a project can almost always be used to refine the design.
What would you like to improve in the design?

9. Final Design Calculations. Present the final design calculations in a format


similar to the textbook. Use subsections, as follows:

(a) Power and Torque Requirements


(b) Gear Specification
(c) Shaft Layout
(d) Force Analysis
(e) Shaft Material Selection
(f) Shaft Design for Stress
i. Static
ii. Fatigue
(g) Shaft Design for Deflexion
(h) Bearing Selection
(i) Key and Retaining Ring Selection

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(j) Final Analysis

10. References. List references consulted such as Shigley, AGMA, ABMA,


etc. Also, list Internet resources and Vendor catalogues.

11. Appendix

(a) Appendix A
(b) Appendix B
(c) Appendix C
(d) Appendix . . .
(e) Appendix . . .

You may use separate appendices to present various information, such as


Maple worksheets, some detailed design calculations, the Design Project
instructions (this document), etc.
You must have a reference in the report text to each of the appendices.

4 Guidance
Please consider the following comments in the execution of your design project:

1. Start on the report writing now! Trust me, you will not be successful if
you wait to the last moment to start writing the final report. In professional
engineering practice, it is a very good habit to start writing the report at the
beginning of the project and continue writing and updating the report during
the course of the project.

2. Be very careful with units! Always show units in your report and calcula-
tions.

3. Strongly suggest using Maple worksheets to present your calculations.

4. Strongly suggest preparing drawings in CAD.

5. Everything in the report and calculations must be traceable to its source!


You must be able to back up, support, and explain the source of everything.

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6. In the final report, it is only necessary to show the final design and the final
design supporting calculations.
The iterative designs should be dated and retained in your files for future
inspection, if requested.

7. Consider the reader! Write clearly and concisely.

8. This an engineering report. It is not a homework assignment.


We are not impressed with fluff!
We are not impressed with a volume of pages without meaningful content.
We are not impressed with the thickness of papers. We are impressed with
results.
We are impressed with a professional report presentation and elegant, opti-
mum design.
All report pages should be numbered. All standalone figures, tables, and
drawings must be numbered and referenced in the text.
Do not use double spacing in the report.
In my opinion, the most professional reports are developed with LATEX. Un-
fortunately, we have not used LATEX in this course.

9. This Design Project is an individual assignment! Each student is expected


to submit their own work. Due to the infinite variety of design decisions,
analysis methods, and calculations, it is highly unlikely that any two student
designs are very similar. All designs are unique.
Now, it is allowed to discuss the project with other students. However, the
work you submit must be unique and must be entirely your own work.
The report must include the Honour Code statement, date, and your signa-
ture.

10. If you need help, seek it early!


When you ask a question by email, please copy me, and all the T.A.s! This
will improve the response time to your question.
Occasionally, project clarifications will be posted to Blackboard.

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11. The PDF of your Final Report must be uploaded to Blackboard.
A printed and spiralbound Final Report must be submitted. Submitting the
report in a looseleaf notebook is not allowed.

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