Department of Civil Engineering, Iit Bombay
Department of Civil Engineering, Iit Bombay
Department of Civil Engineering, Iit Bombay
1. A hollow steel shaft with external diameter 6. A steel shaft and an aluminium tube are
150 mm is required to transmit 1MW at 300 connected to a fixed support and rigid disk
rpm. Calculate a suitable internal diameter as shown in Fig. 2. Determine the maximum
for the shaft if its shear stress is not to torque which may be applied to the disk
exceed 70 MPa. Compare the torque without exceeding the shearing stresses of
carrying capacity of this shaft with a solid 120 MPa and 70 MPa in steel and
steel shaft having the same weight per unit aluminium tube respectively. Take G = 80
length and limiting shear stress. Take G = 80 GPa for steel and 27 GPa for aluminium.
GPa.
8 mm
2. A steel shaft consists of a hollow shaft 2m
long, with an outside diameter of 100 mm
and an inside diameter of 70 mm, rigidly 76 mm 50 mm
attached to a solid shaft of 1.5 m length and Fig. 2
70 mm diameter. Determine the maximum 500 mm
power that can be transmitted by the shaft at 7. A circular shaft AB consists of a 250 mm
a speed of 100 rpm without exceeding a long, 20 mm diameter steel cylinder, in
shear stress of 70 MPa and a twist of 2.5 in which a 125 mm long, 16 mm diameter
the 3.5 m length. G = 80 GPa. cavity is drilled from end B (Fig. 3). The
3. Compare the torque transmitted by a solid shaft is attached to fixed supports at both
shaft of diameter d and the torque ends, and a 120 N.m torque is applied at its
transmitted by a shaft of annular cross- mid-section Determine the torque exerted by
section of the same material with mean the shaft on both supports.
diameter d, the weight per unit length being
same for the two shafts. 125 mm