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This document outlines a course on machine element design. The course covers design principles and analysis of shafts, couplings, clutches, brakes, drives including belt, chain, and gear drives, and bearings. Evaluation includes continuous assessment, final exam, attendance, and participation in practical work and industrial visits.

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This document outlines a course on machine element design. The course covers design principles and analysis of shafts, couplings, clutches, brakes, drives including belt, chain, and gear drives, and bearings. Evaluation includes continuous assessment, final exam, attendance, and participation in practical work and industrial visits.

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BSc Curricula | Department of Mechanical Engineering | May 2015

MEng2152: Machine Element II


Department of Mechanical Engineering/School of MME
AASTU
Course Number MEng2152
Course Title Machine Element II
Degree Program B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Module Machine Elements
Module Coordinator NN
Lecturer NN
ECTS Credits 5
Contact Hours (per Lecture Tutorial Laboratory/Practice Home Study
Semester) 32 48 0 55
Course Objectives
The course enables students understand basic principles of
Course Objectives &
design in the design and analysis of typical machine
Competences to be
elements with particular focus on: Shafts, Couplings,
Acquired
Clutches and Brakes; Drives: Friction Drives, Belt Drives,
Chain Drives and Gear Drives; and Bearings.
Shafts and Rotors; Couplings and Clutches; Starting Process
of Machine Plants Consisting Friction Clutches; Bearings:
Rolling and Sliding; Drives: Friction, Flat and V-Belt Drives;
Course Description
Rope and Chain Drives; Gear drives: Spur, Helical, and Bevel
Gear Drives; Geometry and Dimensioning on Strength;
Worm Gear Drive.
1. Shafts: Types of shafts; Shaft design: Shaft design on
the bases of strength, rigidity and vibration.
2. Coupling and Clutches: Coupling: Rigid couplings and
Course outline flexible couplings; Clutches: Positive clutches and friction
clutches.
3. Brakes: Materials for break lining; Types of breaks:
Single block or shoe brake, Double block or shoe brake,

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Band brake, Internal expanding brake, Disc brake.


4. Drives: Friction drives; Belt drives: Flat belt drive, V-belt
drive and rope drive; Chain drives; Gear drives:
Introduction, Classification of gears, Gear geometry, Law of
gearing, Tooth profile, Interference in involutes gears, Gear
material, Design consideration for a gear derive, Types of
gears, Design calculation of gears for strength and wear.
5. Bearings: Sliding contact bearing; Rolling contact
bearing.
6. Lubrications.
Pre-requisites MEng2151 Machine Elements I
Semester Year III, Semester I
Mode of delivery Semester based
Status of Course core
Teaching & Learning Lectures supported by tutorials;
Methods • Demonstration of machine elements.
Continuous assessment 50%
Evaluation systems
Final examination 50%
Minimum of 80% attendance during lecture hours;
• 100% attendance during practical work sessions, except
Course Policy
for some unprecedented mishaps; and Presence during
industrial visit/visits.
Textbook: Shigley and Mischke , Mechanical Engineering
Design, 7th ed., 2003
References:
1. Robert C. Juvinall and Kurt M. Marshek, Fundamentals of
Machine Component Design, Aug 2, 2005
References 2. Joseph Shigley, Charles Mischke, and Thomas H.Brown,
Standard Handbook of Machine Design, Jun25, 2004.
3. Robert L. Norton, Machine Design: An Integrated
Approach (3rd Edition), May 10, 2005.
4. Arthur H. Burr & John B. Cheatham, Mechanical Analysis
and Design (2nd Edition), Mar 2, 1995

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5. Coulson and Richardson‟s , Chemical Engineering Design,


Volume 6, Second Edition, Butterworth Heinemann, 1996
6. Juvinal R.C.: Fundamentals of Machine Components
Design, John Wiley & Sons, 4th ed., 2005.

Course approval section

Instructor Name Module coordinator Name

__________________ ___________________

Signature: ____________ _____________

Date: ____________ _____________

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