1. Specify the effect of increasing the pressure angle in gear Design?

It is the angle formed by the line of action with the common tangent to the pitch circles of mating
gears. For involute system of gears, the pressure angle is constant and it may be 14 0 (or) 200
2. Write short notes on backlash of gears
Backlash can be defined as the play between a mating pair of gear assembled condition
3. How are gears classified?
Gears are classified based on
(a) Axes of gear shafts as
(i) Parallel - Eg. spur, helical, herring-bone gears. ii) Intersecting - Eg. Bevel
gears. iii) Non-parallel and non-intersecting - Eg.- worm, gears, Skew gears.
b) Profile of gear tooth
(i) Involute gears. ii) Cycloidal gears.
(c) Position of teeth on wheel rim.
(i)Tooth parallel to axis of gear - Eg. Spur gears.
(ii) Tooth inclined to axis of gear - Eg. Helical gears.
(d) Pressure angle
i) Gears with 201 pressure angle. ii) Gears with 14 1/20 pressure angle
4. Specify the types of gears-failures
a) Tooth breakage. b) Pitting of tooth surface. c) Abrasive- wears. d) Seizing of teeth etc.
5. What preliminary design considerations should be, adopted, when selecting gear drive
All kinds of gears cannot be useful for all kinds of work. Hence following factors should
be considered for selecting a specific type of gear drive.
i) The amount of. power to be transmitted.
ii) Space availability.
iii) Amount of gear ratio for single step.
iv) Causes for gear failures and their preventing methods.
v) Proper material
vi) Life of gears required, usually 10,000 hours..
6. How do gears fail?
a)Gears may fail due to tooth breakage by overload and misalignment of shafts.
b)corrosion of teeth by improper lubricants.
c) tooth wear because of insufficient lubrication.
d) interference because of no under-cut.
Spur gears Helical gears
7. In what ways are differed from spur gears?
spur gears
1. Teeth are cut parallel to the axis
2. 2. Entire width of tooth is Gradual engagement is obtained
3. 3. Rough and noisy operation
4. 4. Less power is transmitted.
helical gears
1) Teeth are cut inclined to the axis.
2) simultaneously engaged with full since their teeth are inclined to width of mating gear.
axis.
3) Smooth and silent operation.
4) More power can be. transmitted.
8. State the law of gearing
The law of gearing states that for obtaining a constant velocity ratio, at any instant of teeth the
common normal at each point of contact should always passes through a pitch point (fixed point)
on the line joining the centre of rotation of the pair of mating gears.
9. Why is a gear tooth subjected to dynamic load
If all the teeth of gear are cut perfectly, the engagement of teeth pair of pinion and gear will be
smooth. Sometimes, due to inaccuracies of tools used for tooth cutting, the gear teeth may not
have smooth surface and this defect causes the jerky operation of toothed gears which results the
angular acceleration and decelerations of the gear wheels even though angular velocity of driving
wheel is constant.

10.What condition must be satisfied for the pair of spur gears to have a constant velocity
ratio?
For the spur pair to have a constant velocity ratio, the common normal, at the point of contact
between a pair of teeth, must always pass through the pitch point. This is also called Law of
gearing.

PART B
11. Design a spur gear drive required to transmit 45KW at a pinion speed of 800 rpm. The
velocity ratio is 3.5. The teeth are 200 Full depth involutes with 18 teeth. On the pinion both the
pinion and gear are made of steel with a maximum safe static stress of 180N/mm2 Assume
medium shock conditions
12. Design and draw spur gear drive transmitting 30KW at 400 rpm to another shaft running
approximately at 1000 rpm .The load is steady and continuous .The material for the pinion is
steel and for gear is cast iron. Take modulus as 10mm Also check the design for dynamic load
and wear.
13. Design a helical gear to transmit 15KW at 1400 rpm to the following specification speed
reduction is 3, pressure angle is 200, Helix angle is 150 the material of both the gears is C45 steal
Allowable static stress 180 N/mm2 surface endurance limit is 800 N/mm2, youngs modules of
material 200Gpa.
14. Design a helical gear drive to connect an electric motor to a reciprocating pump. Gear are
overhanging in their shafts. Motor speed=1440 rpm. Speed reduction ratio=5, motor
power=37kw pressure angle=200 Helix angle=250
15. In a spur gear drive for a store cruster the gears are made of c 40 steel the pinion is
transmitting 30 kw at 120 rpm the gear ratio is 3. Gear is to work 8 hours per day. Six days a
week and for 3 years. Design the drive
16. For intermittent duty an elevator two cylindrical gears have to transmit 12.5 kw at a pinion
speed of 1200 rpm. Design the gear pari for the following specification gear ratio 3.5 pressure
angle 20 involutes full depth, helix angle 150 gears are expected to work 6 hours a day for 10
years