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INVOLUTE GEAR PROFILE
Involute Tooth Profile Imagine pulleys with simple indentations on their periphery equally spaced by pitch.These pulleys, when moved, would :…
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Mechanics of Machines 2 min read
Law of Gearing
Consider the portions of the two teeth, one on the wheel 1 (or pinion) and the other on the wheel…
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Gear Terminology
Pitch: The size of each tooth on the gear. Teeth: The number of teeth on the gear. Material: What the…
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Classification of cams and followers
Basic shapes Types of follower movement Manner of constraints of the follower Classification according to basic shapes of the cams:…
Mechanics of Machines 3 min read
Cams
A cam is a mechanical member used to produce desired motion to a follower by direct contact. The cam may…
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Velocity and Acceleration Polygon
Procedure to sketch an Acceleration polygon: It is very important to remember the rules of vector addition and vector subtraction.…
Mechanics of Machines 3 min read
KINEMATIC INVERSION
Inversions of mechanism: A mechanism is one in which one of the links of a kinematic chain is fixed. Different mechanisms…
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Mechanism Of A Machine
According to the definition, both forces and motions are transmitted and modified in a machine. The way in which the parts…
fluid mechanics and machinery 5 min read
WHAT IS STEAM TURBINE ?
The steam turbine is one kind of heat engine machine in which steam’s heat energy is converted to mechanical work.The construction of…
fluid mechanics and machinery 6 min read
Centrifugal Pumps
It is one of the simple and interesting topics in fluid mechanics. What is the need of a pump? We require a…
