Design of transmission system

Assignment questions
1. Straight bevel gears are easy to design and manufacture and give reasonably good service
with quieter operation.
a) True
b) No, noise problem
c) No, vibration problem
d) None of the listed

2. Which of the following creates smoother motion?

a) Straight bevel gears
b) Spiral bevel gears
c) Equal for straight and spiral
d) None of the mentioned

3. Which of the following are characteristics of skew bevel gears?

a) Straight teeth
b) Mounted on parallel shafts
c) Mounted on intersecting shafts
d) All of the mentioned

4. If pitch angle is >90, the bevel gear is?

a) Internal
b) External
c) Crown
d) Static

5. When the pitch angle is greater than 90⁰, it is called external bevel gear.
a) True
b) Internal
c) Helical
d) Herringbone

6. Belt, chain and rope are called rigid drives.

a) True
b) Belt is a flexible drive only
c) All three are flexible drives
d) None of the listed

7. In flexible drives, rotary motion of driving shaft is directly converted to rotary motion of
driven shafts
a) Yes
 b) No, translator motion is involved
c) No, Cylindrical motion is involved
d) No, Parabolic motion is involved

8. Flexible drive can absorb shock loads and damp vibrations.

a) True
b) No
c) Depends on the load applied
d) Doesn’t damp vibrations

9. Is there any worry for overloading conditions in flexible belt drives?

a) Yes
b) No
c) Only after a particular threshold limit
d) Depends on external factors

10. V belts have v shaped cross section.

a) No, rectangular
b) No, trapezium
c) No, circular
d) No, spherical

11. The force of friction between belt and V grooved pulley is high.
a) Yes, supported by wedge action
b) No
c) There is no wedge action involved
d) None of the listed

12. The efficiency of flat belt drive is 35%. If all the parameters are same and flat belt is
replaced by V belt, than the efficiency of V belt will be?
a) <35%
b) >35%
c) =35%
d) Cant be determined

13. Gear drives are preferred over chain drives for long centre distances.
a) Yes
b) No, they require additional idle gears.
c) No idler gears are required
d) None of the listed
14. The maximum achievable efficiency of the chain drives is about 80%.
a) It is about 50%
b) It is about 96-98%
c) It is about 75%
d) It is always <40%

15. Chain drives suffer from wear problems.

a) Yes, chain might leave the sprocket
b) No, there is no wear problem
c) Wear is insignificant in chain drives
d) None of the listed

16. The velocity of the chain is always constant in case of chain drive.
a) Yes
b) No, it can never be constant
c) It is constant above a particular value
d) Can’t be stated

17. The cross section of V belt consist of rubber backing to help engagement of teeth with
sprocket.
a) Yes
b) No, it is used for protection
c) There is no rubber packing
d) None of the listed

18. Toothed belt is preferred over ribbed V belt.

a) Yes
b) No
c) They both imply to same thing
d) None of the listed

19. The idler pulley increases the power transmitting capacity of the belt drive.
a) True
b) False

20. Adjusting screw can be used for adjusting belt tension?

a) Yes
b) No
c) Distance can never be changed
d) None of the listed