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Design Procedure of A Screw Jack

The document summarizes the design procedure for a screw jack to lift a 100kN load by 500mm. Key steps include: 1. Designing the screw with a diameter of 70mm and pitch of 10mm to withstand the 1027Nm torque required. Stress analysis shows safety factors above 7. 2. Designing a phosphor bronze nut with an outer diameter of 120mm to distribute the load and withstand stresses from the screw and load. 3. Analyzing buckling strength of the 580mm long screw and finding it adequate. 4. Sizing a 30mm diameter tommy bar to apply the lifting force with a safety factor above design limits. 5. Specifying other component dimensions

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Design Procedure of A Screw Jack

The document summarizes the design procedure for a screw jack to lift a 100kN load by 500mm. Key steps include: 1. Designing the screw with a diameter of 70mm and pitch of 10mm to withstand the 1027Nm torque required. Stress analysis shows safety factors above 7. 2. Designing a phosphor bronze nut with an outer diameter of 120mm to distribute the load and withstand stresses from the screw and load. 3. Analyzing buckling strength of the 580mm long screw and finding it adequate. 4. Sizing a 30mm diameter tommy bar to apply the lifting force with a safety factor above design limits. 5. Specifying other component dimensions

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Design procedure of a Screw Jack

Let us consider
Load= 100KN and lifting height= 500mm. The design will be considered in the following steps:

1. Design of the screw

Let us consider a MS screw with t = 448MPa and


Take a high factor of safety =10 and

= 224 MPa

This gives dc=54mm

next standard: nominal dia=70mm and pitch=10mm.

The torque required to raise the load is given by:

Where l = np, n being the number of starts.


Here n=1 and hence l = p =10mm, dm = 65mm, F = 100X103N and = 0.26
This gives: T = 1027 Nm.
Check for combined stress

The screw is subjected to a direct compressive stress and a torsional shear stress . The
c
stresses are given by

The principal stress can be given by

Maximum shear stress max = 29.96 MPa.

Factor o f

safety i n compression =

4 4 8 / 1 2 . 3 1 = 36.4

Factor of Safety in shear = 224/29.96= 7.48.


Therefore the screw dimensions are safe.

2. Design of the nut


A phosphor bronze nut (Cu-Zn alloy with small percentage of Pb) is used.
Let

ty = 125MPa, cy = 150MPa, y = 105MPa and Safe bearing pressure Pb =


15MPa
Yield stress in shear y = 105MPa
Safe bearing pressure Pb = 15MPa.

Considering that the load is shared equally by all threads bearing failure may be avoided if

Here dn=60mm, dm=65, Pb=15 MPa and this gives n/=6.52. Let n/=8
Therefore H = n/p = 8X10 = 80mm
Crushing of nut threads

With the previous values of dmaj and dc we have


c = 12.24 MPa which is adequately safe since cy = 150 MPa
Shear failure of threads
F = dmaj t n/

where t is the thread thickness= p/2 ( for the square thread)=10/2=5


This gives =11.37 MPa and since y= 105MPa shear failure is not expected
Tension in the nut
Due to the screw loading the nut needs to be checked for tension also and we may write:

A correlation factor C for the load is used to account for the twisting moment. With C=1.3 and on
substitution of values in the equation D1 works out to be 70mm.
But D1 needs to be larger than dmaj and we take D1 = 100mm
Crushing failure of collar.

With D1=100mm,, cy=150MPa and F=100KN D2=110mm


Allowing for collar margin take D2 =120mm.
Shearing of the nut collar
D1ay = F
Substituting values D1 =100mm we have a = 4mm

Let a = 5mm

3. Buckling of the Screw


Length L of the screw = Lifting height + H.
This gives L= 500+80 = 580 mm
With the nominal screw diameter of 70mm we have

This value of slenderness ratio is small (< 40) and the screw may be treated as a short
column. No buckling of the screw is therefore expected

4. Tommy bar

Total torsional moment without the collar friction = T = 1027 Nm

To avoid rotation of the load when the screw rotates a loose fitting of the cup is maintained
T= F /
l
1
Where F is the maximum force applied at the tommy bar and this may be taken as 400N
1
/
Length l of the tommy bar = l +D3
1
This gives l/= 1027/400 = 2.56m
Bending Stress
The bar is subjected to a bending moment of value 1027 Nm.
This means to avoid bending we may write:
/32d13ty =1027
where d1 is the tommy bar diameter
Take a M.S bar of ty = 448MPa.

d1 = 0.0285m

Let d1 = 30 mm and we choose d2 = 40mm


5. Other dimensions
D = (1.5 to 1.7) d
Let D = 112 mm
3
3
D = D/2= 56 mm
4
Let L = 100 mm and t = 10 mm
1
4
Frame

t = 0.25 d = 18mm , D = 2.25 D = 270 mm, D = 1.75 D = 473 mm, t = t /2 = 9 mm.


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