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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 9mins
What category of coupling provides a high stiffness across the joint?
Rigid couplings
Flexible couplings
What category of coupling provides higher torsional speeds for the system?
Rigid couplings
Flexible couplings
What category of coupling won't present premature failure by overloads produced by a lack of colinear alignment between the mating shafts?
Rigid couplings
Flexible couplings
Choose the rigid coupling that provides means for dynamic balancing?
What component is missing???
Woodruff key
Pin
Set screw
Dowel
What failure mode is produced in a rigid coupling by having significant misalignment?
Wear
Yielding
Fatigue
Fracture
What does misalignment produces in a rigid coupling?
Lower rpm
Hub wear
Bending moments
Steady torsion
Choose the flexible coupling that allows larger angular misalignment?
Choose the flexible coupling where misalignments are accommodated by metallic flexure elements?
In a single universal joint what part is sometimes called spider?
Yoke
Hub
Needle bearing
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