Skills a Good Machine Designer should possess
Machine designer is the one who designs the machine and its various elements. A good machine designer possesses some skills that help him/her design the machine elements and machine that…
Factors to be considered during Machine Design: Part-2
When the designer designs the elements of the machine or the complete machine, they have to consider several important parameters. Here are some of the important factors to be considered while doing…
Factors to be considered during Machine Design: Part-1
When the designer designs the elements of the machine or the complete machine, they have to consider several important parameters. Here are some of the important factors to be considered while doing…
What are Machine Elements?
All the machines are made up of elements or parts and each element may have to be designed separately and in assembly. The machines elements are classified into two main types: general purpose elements…
Machine Design Procedure
There is no fixed machine design procedure for when the new machine element of the machine is being designed a number of options have to be considered. When designing machine one cannot…
What is Mechanical Design or Machine Design?
Mechanical Design or Machine Design is the branch of Engineering Design. Machine design or Mechanical Design can lead to the formation of the entirely new machine or it can lead to improvement…
Enveloping Worm Gear Design Advantages
What is a Worm Gear? For transmitting power between two non-parallel and non-intersecting shafts worm gear is used. A typical worm gear looks like below: When you need very high…
How to Measure Torque Requirements for Gear Box
The torque requirements of a gear box are normally drilled down from the application, where the gearbox is coupled. For example, in ready made concrete mixer machine, the main torque requirement and…
Torque Converter: What it is and How it Works
The vehicles and machineries with automatic transmission does not have a clutch, instead, it has a torque converter. But, how a torque converter works or solves the purpose of a clutch?…
What is a Self Locking Worm Gear? How does it Work?
What is Worm Gear? A worm gear is gear train where one of the meshing gears is worm (a screw-like gear) and another one is a spur gear. For power transmission,…
