Machine Elements

• Semester credits: 4
• Lecture contents
• Basics
• Design considerations
• Mohr's circle
• Stress-strain relations
• Stresses in cylinders
• Rotating rings
• Statically indeterminate problems
• Column buckling
• Failure prevention
• Failure theories
• Fatigue failure
• The endurance limit
• The fatigue strength
• Endurance-limit modifying factors
• Fluctuating stresses and Goodman equation
• Design of mechanical elements
• Power screws
• Mechanical springs
• Rolling contact bearings
• Journal bearings
• Spur gears
• Conjugate action and involute properties
• Contact ratio and interference
• Force analysis
• The Lewis formula
• Brakes and clutches
• Flat belts and V belts
• Shafts
• Text

Shigley, J.E., Mischke, C.R.
Mechanical Engineering Design
5th edition, 1989
The McGraw-Hill Companies

• Main references
• Burr, A.H., Cheatham, J.B.
  Mechanical Analysis and Design
  2nd edition, 1995
  Prentice-Hall
• Juvinall, R.C., Marshek, K.M.
  Fundamentals of Machine Component Design
  2nd edition, 1991
  John Wiley & Sons