Timed Online Exam, Fall 2020

1. General information
Course (e.g. ENGR 201): MECH 344

Date and time of exam

DEC-19 09:00AM
release (e.g. APR-20 09:00):

Deadline for exam submission: DEC-19 12:00PM

(e.g. APR-23 09.00)
Ayhan Ince
Instructor Information: ayhan.ince@concordia.ca

2. Terms and Conditions

a) Use of the following materials during the exam is permitted (check indicates allowed, all blank for
closed book):
course readings/textbook................... ✔
✔
lecture notes........................................
any book online....................................
Moodle material................................... ✔

other................................................... If other please specify

b) Online searching of subject material/related exam questions is permitted: Yes No

c) Communicating with classmates regarding any aspect of the exam or course once you begin the
exam is not permitted.
d) Posting or sharing the exam content, including exam questions, or your answers both during and
after submission is not permitted.

4. Questions that arise during the exam

It is important to recognize that the type of questions that an instructor can respond to during an
exam is limited.

Instructor: Please describe what kinds of questions you will answer. See example given

If you find an exam question to be ambiguous or unclear, email your concerns to me at the address
shown above in the General Information section. I will try to review questions periodically during the exam
period, but a response cannot be guaranteed. It is important, therefore, that you express any concerns
over ambiguities on your exam and continue to answer questions to the best of your ability.

Instructor will be available to respond to questions at the following times:

N/A
5. Academic integrity

Concordia University takes academic integrity very seriously and expects its students to do the
same.
I understand that any form of cheating, or plagiarism, as well as any other form of dishonest
behaviour, intentional or not, related to the obtention of gain, academic or otherwise, or the
interference in evaluative exercises committed by a student is an offence under the Academic
Code of Conduct.
I understand that the above actions constitute an offence by anyone who carries them out,
attempts to carry them out or participates in them.
By way of example only, academic offences include:
• Plagiarism;
• Contribution by a student to another student’s work with the knowledge that such work may
be submitted by the other student as their own;
• Unauthorized collaboration;
• Obtaining the questions or answers to an exam or other unauthorized resource;
• Use of another person’s exam during an exam;
• Communication with anyone other than the instructor/invigilator during an exam and any
unauthorized assistance during an exam;
• Impersonation;
• Falsification of a document, a fact, data or a reference.

For more information about academic misconduct and academic integrity, refer to the Academic
Code of Conduct and Concordia University’s Academic Integrity webpage.
I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this exam and I agree to adhere to
the specific Terms and Conditions that govern this exam.

Signature: Student Name

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
Final Exam – MECH 344 (Machine Element Design)
Saturday Dec. 19, 2020
Exam start time: 9:00 AM
Exam end time: 12:00 PM

IMPORTANT NOTES:

 This is a take-home exam. Therefore, ACADEMIC HONESTY IS STRICTLY

REQUIRED.
 Students are required to sign the form (Timed Online Exam, Fall 2020) and attached it to
their exam solutions.
 The exam includes three problems and you must answer all three problems.
 Be sure to write your solution including equations and diagrams with clear formulation and
explanation/description. Unclear exam papers will not be graded. Only pdf document format
will be accepted.
 If you use any tables, graphs and etc. in your solution, you need to provide your reference
source (e.g. Table 5-2, Figure 9-6).
 Save the file as single PDF file (including the signed form). When you save the file, include
the course title, the term and your full name in the file's name (example
“MECH344_winter2020_ Tony Cooks.pdf”).
 Students need to write their first and last names, their student ID in the required field below.
 10 min extra time is given to download the exam from Moodle. Students can download the
exam 10 min before Exam start time of 9:00 am.
 15 min extra time is given to scan/upload exams to Moodle from Exam end time (The latest
time to upload exam papers is 12:15 pm). However, students are advised to upload exam
papers in Moodle 15 minutes before due time in case of any unforeseen technical problems.
Only Moodle submissions will be accepted.
 Late submission for any reasons beyond these extra times will not be accepted.
 Methodology and formulations in course notes and the adopted textbook (Machine Elements
in Mechanical Design” (6th Edition)” by Robert L. Mott, Edward M. Vavrek, Jyhwen Wang,
Publisher: Pearson) must be followed.

Your last name: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Your first name: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Your ID#: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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A Single-reduction gear box is required to transmit 20 hp power from an electric motor running
at 2400 to a general industrial machine running at 800 rpm. The gear box is required to fit
12” × 18” space in x-y plane. Required dimensions are shown in Figure 1. The vertical distance
(y-direction) between pinion/gear and wall of the gear box housing is 1 inch. The pinion B is
mounted on the shaft 1 that is supported by the bearings A and C. The gear E is mounted on the
shaft 2 that is supported by the bearings D and F. The centerline of all three shafts is required to
be in the same plane. All gears are solid spur gears made of steel materials, assume the load is
applied at the highest point of single tooth contact and both driver and driven machines involve
light shock. Also, assume that diametral pitch is 6, pressure angle is 20∘ , and reliability is 99%
for the gears. Application demands quality number of A9 and design life is 10,000 hrs.

Figure-1 Single-Speed Reduction Gear Box

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PROBLEMS:

1- Use a safety factor of 2 and determine sizes of gears (a number of teeth, center distance,
pitch diameter), and allowable bending and contact stress numbers for pinion and gears,
and then select the type of steel material for the gears accordingly. (35%)

2- Draw the shear, bending moment and torque diagrams for shafts 1 (carrying pinion B) and
shaft 2 (carrying gear E). Use a safety factor of 3 and determine diameters of shaft 1 and
shaft 2 at all critical locations (for the shaft 1 at pinion B and at bearing A and C locations
and for the shaft 2 at gear E and at bearing D and F locations). Report minimum required
basic sizes at these locations. Use wrought steel SAE 1040 OQT400 steel for shaft material
and assume shaft is machined. Assume reliability of 99%. There are profile keyseat at
locations of gears on the shaft. Also, there are sharp fillets on the shaft at location C and D
to accurately locate the bearings C and D axially. (35%)

3- Determine appropriate ball bearings at locations A, C, D and F in the gear box for design
life of 10000 hrs and reliability of 99%. It is noted that the minimum accepted diameter of
the shaft at locations A, and F is 1 in and at locations C and D is 0.5 in. (30%).

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