1. What are the types of keys?

i. Saddle key
ii. Tangent key
iii. Sunk key
iv. Round key and taper pins

2. function of a coupling
Couplings are used to connect sections of long transmission shafts and to connect the
shaft of a driving machine to the shaft of a driven machine.

3. Gear Materials
a. Steel – Carbon steel, alloy steel
b. Cast Iron
c. Bronze
d. Nylon

4. Helix angle
a. The angle of teeth makes with axis of shaft is called helix angle
b. It is used in a range of 8° – 25 °

5. Use of Bevel gears

a. It is used to transmit between two perpendicular or angular shafts
b. Widely used in automobiles – Differential units

6. Strength improvement in gears

Heat treatment processes like,

i. Case hardening
ii. Tempering

7. keyways and splines

a. keyway is a single cut or groove made in both the mating components to accommodate
key
b. splines are multiple keyways cut on mating components to hold them each other

8. Flexible couplings used:

a. When the axis of both shafts not coincident
b. When there is shock and vibration
c. When there is off setting axis of shaft

9. backlash in gears
It is nothing but the delay in contact between two teeth of gears while they mating each
other

10. bevel gear preferred

during angular power transmission

11. interference in gears

When two gears are in mesh at one instant there is a chance to mate involute portion
with non-involute portion of mating gear. This phenomenon is known as "interference" and
occurs when the number of teeth on the smaller of the two meshing gears is less than a required
minimum