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22-Mec-B1 Advanced Machine Design: May 2018

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  1. Question 1 Short-Answer Concepts
  2. Question 2 Overhung Rotating Shaft — ASME-Elliptic Fatigue Design
  3. Question 3 Double Short-Shoe External Drum Brake
  4. Question 4 Journal Bearing Sized by No-Load (Petroff) Power Loss
  5. Question 5 Bolted Pressure-Vessel Cylinder Head
  6. Question 6 Twin Acme Power Screws Raising a Sluice Gate

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Paper format: National Exams, 16-Mec-B1 Advanced Machine Design, May 2018. Open book, 3 hours, 100 marks. Part I (Problems 1 & 2) is compulsory; candidates answer only three of the four Part II problems (3–6). All six problems are solved here as a complete study resource.

Reference texts. Budynas & Nisbett, Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design (10th ed.) — shaft/fatigue §7, bolted joints §8, journal bearings §12, brakes §16, power screws §8–2; Juvinall & Marshek, Fundamentals of Machine Component Design; Norton, Machine Design: An Integrated Approach.