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Assignment No 5 - EMEC208L - Balancing

The document contains 9 problems related to balancing rotating and reciprocating masses in mechanical systems. It includes questions about finding required balance masses, residual unbalanced forces, and calculating hammer blow, tractive effort variation, and swaying couple for locomotive engines.

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Assignment No 5 - EMEC208L - Balancing

The document contains 9 problems related to balancing rotating and reciprocating masses in mechanical systems. It includes questions about finding required balance masses, residual unbalanced forces, and calculating hammer blow, tractive effort variation, and swaying couple for locomotive engines.

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

BENNETT UNIVERSITY

Course: Kinematics & Dynamics of Machines (EMEC208L)


ASSIGNMENT NO. 5 (Balancing)

[1] Four masses m1, m2, m3 and m4 are 200 kg, 300 kg, 240 kg and 260 kg respectively. The
corresponding radii of rotation are 0.2 m, 0.15 m, 0.25 m and 0.3 m respectively and the angles
between successive masses are 45°, 75° and 135°. Find the position and magnitude of the balance
mass required, if its radius of rotation is 0.2 m.
[2] Four masses A, B, C and D as shown below are to be completely balanced.

The planes containing masses B and C are 300 mm apart. The angle between planes containing B
and C is 90°. B and C make angles of 210° and 120° respectively with D in the same sense. Find :
1. The magnitude and the angular position of mass A ; and 2. The position of planes A and D.
[3] Four masses A, B, C and D are attached to a shaft and revolve in the same plane. The masses are
12 kg, 10 kg, 18 kg and 15 kg respectively and their radii of rotations are 40 mm, 50 mm, 60 mm
and 30 mm. The angular position of the masses B, C and D are 60°, 135° and 270° from the mass
A. Find the magnitude and position of the balancing mass at a radius of 100 mm. [Ans. 7.56 kg ;
87° clockwise from A]
[4] A, B, C and D are four masses carried by a rotating shaft at radii 100 mm, 150 mm, 150 mm and
200 mm respectively. The planes in which the masses rotate are spaced at 500 mm apart and the
magnitude of the masses B, C and D are 9 kg, 5 kg and 4 kg respectively. Find the required mass A
and the relative angular settings of the four masses so that the shaft shall be in complete balance.
[Ans. 10 kg ; Between B and A 165°, Between B and C 295°, Between B and D 145°]
[5] A single cylinder reciprocating engine has speed 240 r.p.m., stroke 300 mm, mass of reciprocating
parts 50 kg, mass of revolving parts at 150 mm radius 37 kg. If two third of the reciprocating parts
and all the revolving parts are to be balanced, find : 1. The balance mass required at a radius of 400
mm, and 2. The residual unbalanced force when the crank has rotated 60° from top dead centre.
[6] A two cylinder uncoupled locomotive has inside cylinders 0.6 m apart. The radius of each crank is
300 mm and are at right angles. The revolving mass per cylinder is 250 kg and the reciprocating
mass per cylinder is 300 kg. The whole of the revolving and two-third of the reciprocating masses
are to be balanced and the balanced masses are placed, in the planes of rotation of the driving
wheels, at a radius of 0.8 m. The driving wheels are 2 m in diameter and 1.5 m apart. If the speed
of the engine is 80 km. p.h. ; find hammer blow, maximum variation in tractive effort and maximum
swaying couple. [Ans. 18.30 kN, 16.92 kN, 16.2 kN-m]
[7] Write a short note on primary and secondary balancing.
[8] Explain why only a part of the unbalanced force due to reciprocating masses is balanced by
revolving mass.
[9] Derive the following expressions, for an uncoupled two-cylinder locomotive engine: (a) Variation
is tractive force; (b) Swaying couple; and (c) Hammer blow.

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