ME 415B (Prelim Exam)

September 25, 2021

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DIRECTION: Show your solutions

PROBLEMS:

1. A taper pin is used to fix a lever to a shaft, if it is to transmit a maximum torque of 850 in-lb. The shaft diameter is 1.75
inches and has an ultimate stress of 60,000 psi, if the factor of safety is 3, find
A. Force that will shear the pin, kN
B. Shear pin diameter, mm

2. A 3/4 inch diameter rivet is used to fastened two 25 mm thick plate. If the shearing stress of rivet is 80 Mpa,
A. What tensile force applied each plate to shear the bolt, pounds?
B. What bearing stress that the bolt can withstand, MPA?

3. In a 2.5 m cantilevered I-beam, 2500 kg weight is applied at 0.75 meter from the free end. If the allowable stress in
beam is 120 Mpa, determine the
A. section modulus, in3.
B. The base and height of the beam if the base is 75% of its height, mm.

4. A steel tie rod on bridge must be made to withstand a pull of 5000 lbs. Find the diameter of the rod assuming a factor of
safety of 4 and allowable stress of 14,000 psi.

5. A hollow shaft transmits 10 kW and running at 650 rpm with a shearing stress of 55 Mpa. The outside diameter is 1.2
times that of the inside diameter. Find the inside and outside diameters in mm.

6. Four cylinders rolling in opposite directions has a speed ratio of A:B:C:D = 5:2:3:4. If center distance between cylinder
A and D is 80 inches, find the diameter of all cylinders.

7. A steel 0.6 inch x 1.2 inch steel 90 m long is subjected to a 45kN tensile load along its length. If poison’s ratio is 0.3.
Find
A. The deformation along its length, inches
B. The deformation along its thickness, inches
C. The deformation along its width, inches
D. The lateral strains, inches

8. What temperature will the rails just touched if steel railroad is 10 m long are laid with clearance of 3 mm at initial
temperature of 15 C. Use k = 11.7 x 10-6 m/m C. Also compute the strain and stress.

9. A force tangent to 1 foot diameter pulley is 5 KN and is mounted on a 2 inches shaft. Determine the torsional deflection
if G = 83 x 106 Kpa.

10.The pressure inside the cylindrical tank varies from 810 kpa to 3210 kpa continuously. The diameter of shell is 1.5 m.
Find the following if yield point is 455 Mpa, endurance strength is 195 Mpa and factor of safety of 2.5.
A. Wall thickness, mm
B. The maximum stress
C. The minimum stress

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