School of Engineering

Design Lab -II

Short Questions for Design Lab Experiments.

01. Simple Pendulum, Compound Pendulum, Trifilar

What is the difference between a spring and a damper?
what is the difference between vibration and oscillation?
What are the effects of vibration on components?
What is the difference between accelerometer and vibrometer?
What is the difference between forced and free vibration?
What is meant by degrees of freedom in a vibrating system?

02. Gyroscope
Give the applications of gyroscopic principle.
What is gyroscopic torque?
What is the effect of gyroscopic couple on rolling of ship? Why?

03. Governor
Differentiate between governor and flywheel?
What is meant by sensitiveness of governors?
Define power of a governor?
What is meant by hunting?
What is meant by isochronous condition in governors?
What do you mean by governor effort?

04. Journal Bearing Apparatus

What is the function of bearing and types of bearing?
What should be desirable properties of a good bearing material?
What are the major hydrodynamic effects must be considered in bearing design?

05. Dunker lay’s Verification

What do you mean by transverse vibration?
State different method of finding natural frequency of a system
Define resonance.
What is the effect of inertia on the shaft in longitudinal and transverse vibrations?

06. Tuned Mass Damper

What are the different types of damping?
Draw the schematic diagram of a free damped vibration system and write the governing
differential equation of the system.
What is meant by critical damping?
Define logarithmic decrement.
Specify the importance of vibration isolation?

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What is difference between damped and undamped vibration?
what is vibration isolation?

07. Whirling Shaft Apparatus.

Define critical or whirling speed.
What are the factors that affect the critical speed of a shaft?
What are the causes of critical speed?
what are single & multi degree of freedom systems?

08. Two Rotor Torsional Vibration/Damped Torsional Vibration

Differentiate between transverse and torsional vibrations.
Define node in torsional vibration
Define torsional equivalent shaft.
What are the conditions to be satisfied for an equivalent system to that of geared system in
torsional vibrations?

09. Forces at Reciprocating Masses

Why can't we completely balance a single cylinder engine?
Can a multi-cylinder engine be completely balanced?
Why are the crank of a locomotive, with two cylinders, placed in 90o to each other?
Differentiate between the unbalanced force caused due to rotating and reciprocating masses?
List the effect of partial balancing of locomotives?
Define swaying couple?
Define hammer blow with respect to locomotives?
What are the effect of hammer blow and swaying couple?

10. Epicyclic Gear Train

Define gear train.
Name different types of gear trains.
What is an epicyclic or planetary gear train.
Which type of gear box is used in automobiles?
What are the advantages of Cycloidal and Involute gears?
What is meant by gear ratio?
What are conditions suitable for gear train drive over other power transmission system?

11. Cam-Follower Analysis

What is cam dynamics?
Define unbalance and spring surge.
Define windup. What is the remedy for camshaft windup?
What are the effect and causes of windup?
Which motion of follower is best for high speed cams?
What is meant by jump phenomenon in cam and follower system?
Why Roller follower is preferred over knife edge follower?
Define radial follower and offset follower.