Course Description
Every machine uses machine elements for either statical or dynamical purposes. This course is designed to give the information on machine design and selection of machine elements as well as basic facts of machine elements.
Course Objectives
- Familiarizing with machine design
- Learning special requirements of each machine components
- Learning the selection methodology of machine elements
- Understanding the service and maintenance requirements for machine elements
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone who would like to design and build a machine or service it
- Mechanical technicians and engineers
- Service personnel and managers
Course Details/Schedule
- Machine design and need for machine elements
- Introduction of machine design procedure
- Examples of different mobile and stationary machines
- Preparation of design requirements list
- Necessity for machine elements
- Basic uses of machine elements
- Screws types and selection
- Machine screw
- Different features of a screw
- Screw materials
- Screw manufacturing
- Bearings types
- Selection procedure for bearings
- Bearing failures
- Seals types and usage
- Seal materials
- Seal manufacturing
- Spring calculations, types and selection
- Compression springs
- Torsion bars
- Torque transmitting elements, belts, chains and gears
- Belt calculations
- Belt and pulley selection
- Differences between the belt and chain systems
- Chain manufacturing and failures
- Gear modules
- Gearboxes
- Actuators: hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical motors
- Actuator selection procedure
- Hydraulic and pneumatic system design
- Electric motor types and selection procedure
- Comparison of different actuators
