Autmobile Propeller Shaft Design Calculation- Part3 – Critical Speed of Shaft
Critical speed or whirling speed of a drive shaft is such a speed at which the deflection of the driving shaft increases drastically due to the effect of the cetripetal…
Autmobile Propeller Shaft Design Calculation- Part2: Torque in Shaft
The torque in a shaft is responsible for rotating the driveshaft with respect to its axis. The drive shaft transmits torque from the gearbox to the axle and while doing…
Autmobile Propeller Shaft Design Calculation- Part1
A propeller shaft, drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft or cardan shaft is used for transmitting torque mainly in automobiles and in ships. This article will discuss the overview of the…
Draw Torque Diagram in Six Steps
The torque diagram of a shaft is analogues to the shear force and bending moment diagram of a beam. It is an important engineering diagram from the pulley shaft design…
How to Calculate High Cycle Fatigue Strength of Steel without Using S-N curve
Plotting the S-N curve requires actual fatigue testing of the specimen, and that is why it may not always possible to have an exact S-N diagram for the component of…
Five Important Basics of Fatigue Stress Design Calculation
What is cyclic loading? If the applied load (force) on a body changes cyclically (i.e., periodically with time) then the kind of loading is called cyclic loading. For example, when…
Draw Acceleration Vector Diagram in Seven Steps
In the last article, I have discussed how to draw the velocity vector diagram for a four bar linkage mechanism. The same example I will used here as well for…
Draw Velocity Vector Diagram of a Mechanism in Seven Simple Steps
The space diagram, velocity vector diagram and the acceleration vector diagram are the important tools for analyzing a mechanism. With the help of the following example, i will explain the…
Procedure of Heat Exchanger Design and Sizing Calculation Simplified with Example
The heat exchanger (HX) finds numerous applications throughout the wide spectrum of industry. Three main types of HX are: 1.Plate heat exchanger 2.Tube heat exchanger 3.Fin and tube…
Why Bending Stress is More Important than Shear Stress in Beam Design
While designing the cantilever shaft (or any type of beam and shafts for that matter) we normally go ahead drawing the bending moment diagram to find the maximum bending moment…