ME 3350 Design of Machine Elements

Assignment 1
Due Date: August 24, 2011

1. Determine the internal pressure required to yield the inner surface of a thin walled cylinder, where ri = 25.4 mm, ro = 26.7 mm and the material is steel with yield strength Sy = 690 MPa. Assume plane stress. (Use all static failure theories). 2. An overhung diving board is shown in Figure 2. Assume cross-sectional dimensions of 305 mm 32 mm. Find the largest principal stress in the board when a 100 kg person is standing at the free end. What is the static safety factor (according to Coulomb Mohr Theory) if the material is brittle berglass with Sut = 130 MPa in the longitudinal direction.

Figure 1: 3. A pressurized pipe (made of low alloy steel) carrying steam in a power plant is subject to both a constant stress m (due to the stream pressure in the pipe) and a uctuating stress (due to mechanical vibrations and pressure uctuations). Under these conditions the pipe will eventually fail by fatigue. Fatigue tests show the material obeys Basquins law (Nf )a = C when m = 0 with C = 350 MPa and a = 0.07. Determine the fatigue life under the following conditions: (a) Stress varies between -75 and + 75 MPa. (b) Stress varies between -25 and + 125 MPa (Need to nd an equivalent ) (c) Cycles alternate equally between the previous two conditions (Hint: Use Palmgren-Miner linear damage summation rule) Assume the material has a yield-strength of 250 MPa and a tensile strength of 400 MPa. 4. Using an example, discuss the signicance of Rain ow counting algorithm in estimating fatigue life.