Mechanical Engineering curriculum

Calculate the required size of a plate clutch, and the suitable axial force in that case, to be used in an engine of a given torque while the plates have a given limited pressure.

This work offers a comprehensive solution to course question that is common in Mechanical Engineering curriculum, and that, to this end, had remained unsatisfactorily answered. The question has been used by professors, year after year, to test the understanding of students in the area of the design of clutches. The question appears mostly in the […]

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