ME 328- Machine Design, Spring 2020

Syllabi: ME328; ME328H
Class Flow Diagram

Upcoming agenda: for tentative schedule, see: semester lecture schedule

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
PROJECT CHANGES DUE TO THE VIRUS

ME Student Reference Page

CLASS NOTES, etc. (click here)

PENDING Work (this will be updated as new assingments are given)

TABLE OF SEMESTER ASSIGNEMENTS (this will grow as the semester proceeds)

PROJECT information and "assignments":

Gear Ratio Test Information. Teams may use either or both of these sets of TEST DATA (you must do your own analysis) - but GIVE CREDIT (reference) appropriately
Team A9
Team B9

ICA - Artifact Box information

A little levity:

Moma Bear	Polar Bears in penguin cloths	Dog Engineers	Project Vocabulary	Design Criteria???	Yogi on planning	Bulls	Dino
Far Side Units	Noah's Arc	Cat in the Window	Experimentation	Eat like kings	Skunk Works	School of the Gifted	Wondering Eyes
Full brain

History "Archive" (links posted earlier in the semester in the "pending" table)
The Great Molasses Flood, Boston, January 15, 1919
How to move Churches in Romania

Design goods/not so goods:
Traffic Sign What does it mean?
Falkirk Wheel
777X
Intentional SpaceX explosion
Safety-Fuse-Plug

Videos for HW 11:

Shafts:
(1 min) Driveline vibration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAujhNP5uvU
(2.6 min) U-Joint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmV4qwLfOMY
(0.5 min) How a CV joint works (contant velocity)
(not a video) Harmonic balancer (automotive)

Videos for various assignments:

Springs:
(5 min) How spring are made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omLKbKakDoY
(1.5 min)Valve spring surge (float): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfmb-tCo2yA

Pneumatic valve springs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2mTriy9oQM

Bearings:
(6 min) Tapered roller bearings installation: dead link
(5 min) Bearing design (general): dead link
(5 min)– Making of ball bearings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6svVy1lYOA
(1 min) - hydrodynamic journal bearing: dead link

Gears:
(15 sec) “Seeing” stresses in gears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YgMWOJnE9w
(5min) How Gears are made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZgsV0AZJJ0
(5 min) How an automatic xmission works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yuycn43QAg
(3 min) How a synchromesh works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6hWAaE5VWY
(1.5 min) What is a differential: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29QpZrMQ9v8&feature=related
(3 min) Torque converter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvLoX0z9qoY&NR=1
(5 min) “Out of the box” gears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcqJ5HdxA4

Wire Rope:
(5 min) Steel rope, how it’s made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVf71xd2cQ

Braking:
(2 min) Braking system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMg_j5_AGMg
(2.4 min) Antilock Braking System (ABS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5wc19MzCbk

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
Mechanical Engineering Student Reference Materials

Excel, Matlab (or similar) h/w Requirements
Format for Excel problem submission

Descriptions for Project Management:
Mechanical Engineering Student Reference Materials

Examples of Engineering Drawing
Mechanical Engineering Student Reference Materials

Some hopefully usefull links.

Standards, etc.
OSHA
US Patent Search

On-line sources:
ASM Handbooks, on-line
Knovel Items (online textbooks, such as Roark's Forumulas for Stress and Strain)

Vibration: Applet
Baseball hitting bat

Machine Design Links:
Global Spec (source of for links to many manufacturer webs
Power Transmission info
Product Design
Penton (basic machine design help)
American Gear Manufacturers Association
Power Transmission (gears, etc.)
SKF Bearings
Torrington Co.  
Thomas Register
How Stuff Works

Motors and Gear Motor Links
Basic Training, Electric Motors (Leeson)
Leeson.com
Groschopp.com
Kinetedinc.com

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