COURSE CONTENT

Unit I: Design of bearing and flexible power transmission systems 8 lecture hours
Design of sliding contact bearing using Sommerfield number – Design using Mckee’s equation – Selection of
rolling contact bearings. Design of Belts – Flat Belts and Pulleys – V Belts and Pulleys – Design of chain drives –
Wire ropes.

Unit II: Spur Gear 7 lecture hours

Gear geometry – Kinematics – Forces on gear tooth – Stresses in Gear tooth – Selection of gear material
based on bending stress and contact stress – Design of Spur gear – Power transmitting capacity. Computer
– Aided Spur gear Design and Analysis.

Unit III: Helical, Bevel and Worm Gears 10 lecture hours

Parallel Helical Gears – Kinematics – Tooth proportions – Force analysis – Stresses in Helical gear –
Design of helical gear – Crossed Helical gears – Straight Bevel gears – Kinematics – Force analysis –
Stresses in straight bevel gear tooth – Design of bevel gear – Worm gearing – Kinematics – Forces -
Friction and Efficiencies – Stresses in worm gear tooth.

Unit IV: Design of Gear boxes 6 lecture hours

Design of Speed reducers – Design of multi speed gear boxes for machine tools – Structural and ray
diagrams.

Unit V: Motion control: clutches, brakes and cams 9 lecture hours

Internal – Expanding Rim clutches and Brakes – External – Contracting Rim clutches and Brakes – Band
type Clutches – Core clutches and Brakes – Energy considerations – Temperature rise – Friction
materials.