Lecture 1 Design Considerations
Lecture 1 Design Considerations
Design considerations
1- Safety Considerations
1.2 Imagination and Ingenuity
Case study:
A worker lost a hand in a 400-ton punch press despite wearing safety cuffs that were cam-
actuated to pull the hands out of the danger zone before the ram came down. The cause was
a loosened setscrew that permitted the cam to rotate with respect to its supporting shaft,
thereby delaying hand retraction until after the ram came down. This case illustrates the old
adage that “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.” Here, an otherwise very positive and
strong safety device was nullified because of the inexcusably weak link of the setscrew. A
very little imagination and ingenuity on the part of the engineer responsible for this design
would have brought this hazard to light before the unit was released for production.
1.3 Safety Techniques and Guidelines
1. Review the total life cycle of the product from initial production to final disposal, with
an eye toward uncovering significant hazards. Ask yourself what kinds of situations can
reasonably develop during the various stages of manufacturing, transporting, storing,
installing, using, servicing, and so on.
2. Make safety an integral feature of the basic design wherever possible, rather than
“adding on” safety devices after the basic design has been completed.
3. Use a “fail-safe” design where feasible. The philosophy here is that precaution is taken
to avoid failure, but if failure does occur, the design is such that the product is still
“safe”; that is, the failure will not be catastrophic.
4. Check government and industry standards (such as OSHA and ANSI) and the pertinent
technical literature to be sure that legal requirements are complied with, and that
advantage is taken of the relevant safety experience of others
5. Provide warnings of all significant hazards that remain after the design has been made
as safe as reasonably possible.
1.3 Documentation of a Product Design
1. Consider all aspects of the basic design objective involved, to be sure that it
is sound. For example, questions are raised about the overall merits of some
major
dam constructions.
2. An important consideration is designing for recycling.
3. Select materials with ecological factors in mind.
4. Consider ecological factors when specifying processing. Important here are
pollution of all kinds, energy consumption, and efficiency of material usage.
5. Packaging is an important area for resource conservation and pollution
reduction. Reusable cartons, and the use of recycled materials for packaging,
are two areas receiving increasing attention.
3- Overall Design Considerations
4- Systems of Units
5- Methodology for Solving Machine Component Problems
1) Adaptive design: In most cases, the designer’s work is concerned with adaptation
of existing designs. This type of design needs no special knowledge or skill and can
be attempted by designers of ordinary technical training. The designer only makes
minor alternation or modification in the existing designs of the product.
3) New design: This type of design needs lot of research, technical ability and
creative thinking. Only those designers who have personal qualities of a sufficiently
high order can take up the work of a new design.
The designs may be classified depending on the design methods as follows:
Rational design. This type of design depends upon mathematical formulae of
principle of mechanics.
Empirical design. This type of design depends upon empirical formulae based on the
practice and past experience.
Industrial design. This type of design depends upon the production aspects to
manufacture any machine component in the industry.
Optimum design. It is the best design for the given objective function under the
specified constraints. It may be achieved by minimizing the undesirable effects.
System design. It is the design of any complex mechanical system like a motor car.
Element design. It is the design of any element of the mechanical system like piston,
crankshaft, connecting rod, etc.
Computer aided design. This type of design depends upon the use of computer
systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis and optimization of a design.
Machine Design Procedures
Specification of Function
(i) Bearing: To support the rotating shaft and confine its motion.
(ii) Key: To transmit the torque between the shaft and the adjoining
machine part like gear, pulley or sprocket
(iii) Spring: To store and release the energy.
(iv) Screw Fastening: To hold two or more machine parts together.
(v) Power Screw: To produce uniform and slow motion and to
transmit the force.
Determination of Forces
(i) The external force due to energy, power or torque transmitted by the
machine part, often called ‘useful’ load
(ii) Static force due to deadweight of the machine part
(iii) Force due to frictional resistance
(iv) Inertia force due to change in linear or angular velocity
(v) Centrifugal force due to change in direction of velocity
(vi) Force due to thermal gradient or variation in temperature
(vii) Force set up during manufacturing the part resulting in residual stresses
(viii) Force due to particular shape of the part such as stress concentration
due to abrupt change in cross-section
Design of Machine Elements
availability,
failure by elastic deflection;
Cost
failure by general yielding; and
mechanical properties
failure by fracture.
manufacturing considerations
Determination of Dimensions
Tension Rod.
d= 8.92 or 10 mm
Transmission Shaft.
d= 35.79 or 40 mm
Design of Machine Elements
Design Modifications
Working Drawing
Concurrent Engineering
Allowable stress
where Syt and Sut are the yield and the ultimate tensile strength, respectively.
Stress–Strain Relationship
Tensile Stress and compressive Strain Shear Stress and Shear Strain
Stress–Strain Relationship
Stresses Due To Bending Moment Stresses Due To Torsional Moment
rectangular
circular