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Assignment 5 Spring2024

This document provides instructions for Assignment #5 in the MECH 412 Machine Design II course. It outlines that the assignment is a group project where students must contribute equally and not copy from other sources. It then lists 10 multi-part questions related to analyzing gear trains, determining speeds and directions of rotation, sizing gears for appropriate ratios, and calculating loads. Students are asked to show all details of calculations and diagrams in their responses.

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Assignment 5 Spring2024

This document provides instructions for Assignment #5 in the MECH 412 Machine Design II course. It outlines that the assignment is a group project where students must contribute equally and not copy from other sources. It then lists 10 multi-part questions related to analyzing gear trains, determining speeds and directions of rotation, sizing gears for appropriate ratios, and calculating loads. Students are asked to show all details of calculations and diagrams in their responses.

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MECH 412- Machine Design II

Spring 2024
Assignment # 5 (CLO 2)
Due: Tuesday February 27, 2024

Notes and Instructions:


• This is a group assignment. Students in a group must contribute equally in completing the
assignment problems. Intergroup discussion is allowed but at the end, each group must
complete the assignment independently.
• Copying from the textbook solution manual, from another group’s work or from elsewhere is
strictly forbidden and it will be considered as cheating and will be penalized heavily.
• All details of calculations, including intermediate sketches and well-labelled free-body
diagrams, as needed, together with equations of equilibrium and other necessary equations,
must be clearly presented.

Questions:

1. A compound reverted gear train is to be designed as a speed increaser to provide a total


increase of speed of exactly 45 to 1. With a 20° pressure angle, specify appropriate numbers
of teeth to minimize the gearbox size while avoiding the interference problem in the teeth.
Assume all gears will have the same diametral pitch.

2. A compound reverted gear train is to be designed to provide the appropriate ratio between the
minute hand and the hour hand of a clock. The hour hand is attached to the shaft of gear 5,
such that the rotational speed of the hour hand will equal the rotational speed of gear 5. The
shaft of gear 2 passes through the center of the hollow shaft of gear 5, and has the minute
hand attached to it. Use spur gears with a 20° pressure angle. Specify appropriate numbers of
teeth, while minimizing the gearbox size and avoiding the interference problem in the teeth.
3. A gearbox is to be designed with a compound reverted gear train that transmits 25
horsepower with an input speed of 2500 rev/min. The output should deliver the power at a
rotational speed in the range of 280 to 300 rev/min. Spur gears with 20° pressure angle are to
be used. Determine suitable numbers of teeth for each gear, to minimize the gearbox size
while providing an output speed within the specified range. Be sure to avoid an interference
problem in the teeth.

4. Shaft a in the figure rotates at 600 rev/min in the direction shown. Find the speed and
direction of rotation of shaft d.
5. The mechanism train shown in the figure consists of an assortment of gears and pulleys to
drive gear 9. Pulley 2 rotates at 1200 rev/min in the direction shown. Determine the speed
and direction of rotation of gear 9.
6. Assume that the planetary gear train shown below has the frame as member l, the sun gear as
member 2, the planet gear as member 3, the ring gear as member 4, and the carrier as
member 5. Gear 2 is the input and rotates CCW with an angular velocity of 100 rpm and the
carrier rotates CCW with an angular velocity of 200 rpm. Find the angular velocities of gears
3 and 4.

7. In the gear train shown below, shaft A rotates at 200 rpm and shaft B rotates at 300 rpm in the
directions indicated. Determine the speed of shaft C and its direction of rotation.

N2 = 35 N3 = 25 N4 = 14
N5 = 46 N6 = 20 N7 = 16
8. Tooth numbers for the gear train shown in the figure are N2 = 12, N3 = 16, and N4 = 12. How
many teeth must internal gear 5 have? Suppose gear 5 is fixed. What is the speed of the arm
if shaft a rotates at 320 rev/min counterclockwise as viewed from the left side of the figure?
9. Assume that gear 2 in the figure is driven at a speed of 60 rpm in the CCW direction viewed
from the right end. Gear 4 meshes with a fixed ring gear and with gear 5 as shown. Find the
magnitude and direction of the angular velocity of gear 5.
10. In the two-planet epicyclic gear train in the figure below the sun gear is driven at 1200 rpm
in the CCW direction with a torque of 20 N-m and the two-planet carrier arm 4 is used as
output. The ring gear is fixed. The 20° involute gears have a module of 2.5.
a. Determine the circular pitch and the pitch diameter of each gear in the train, and
verify that they are physically compatible in the assembly.
b. Calculate the output shaft speed and determine its direction.
c. Calculate the output torque.
d. Calculate the nominal radial load on each of the bearing in the assembly. (Draw
complete free-body diagrams of members as needed)

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