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The document discusses shaft couplings which are used to connect shafts. It describes the main types of couplings as rigid and flexible and provides examples of each type. It then focuses on describing the sleeve or muff coupling in detail, including its components, purpose, and design procedure.

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Shaft Coupling

The document discusses shaft couplings which are used to connect shafts. It describes the main types of couplings as rigid and flexible and provides examples of each type. It then focuses on describing the sleeve or muff coupling in detail, including its components, purpose, and design procedure.

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Machine Design I III B.

Tech I Sem( Mech) R18

Shaft Coupling
Shafts are usually available up to 7 meters length due to inconvenience in transport. In order
to have a greater length, it becomes necessary to join two or more pieces of the shaft by
means of a coupling.
Shaft couplings are used in machinery for several purposes, the most common of which are
the following:
1. To provide for the connection of shafts of units those are manufactured separately such as
a motor and generator and to provide for disconnection for repairs or alternations.
2. To provide for misalignment of the shafts or to introduce mechanical flexibility.
3. To reduce the transmission of shock loads from one shaft to another.
4. To introduce protection against overloads.
5. It should have no projecting parts.
Types of Shafts Couplings
Shaft couplings are divided into two main groups as follows:
1. Rigid coupling. It is used to connect two shafts which are perfectly aligned. Following
types of rigid coupling are important from the subject point of view:
(a) Sleeve or muff coupling.
(b) Clamp or split-muff or compression coupling, and
(c) Flange coupling.
2. Flexible coupling. It is used to connect two shafts having both lateral and angular
misalignment. Following types of flexible coupling are important from the subject point of
view:
(a) Bushed pin type coupling,
(b) Universal coupling, and
(c) Oldham coupling.

Sleeve or Muff-coupling
It is the simplest type of rigid coupling, made of cast iron. It consists of a hollow cylinder
whose inner diameter is the same as that of the shaft. It is fitted over the ends of the two
shafts by means of a gib head key, as shown in Fig. The power is transmitted from one shaft
to the other shaft by means of a key and a sleeve. It is, therefore, necessary that all the
elements must be strong enough to transmit the torque. The usual proportions of a cast iron
sleeve coupling are as follows:
Outer diameter of the sleeve, D = 2d + 13 mm

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And length of the sleeve, L = 3.5 d


Where d is the diameter of the shaft.
In designing a sleeve or muff-coupling, the following procedure may be adopted.

1. Design for sleeve


The sleeve is designed by considering it as a hollow shaft
Let T = Torque to be transmitted by the coupling, and
τc = Permissible shear stress for the material of the sleeve which is cast iron.
The safe value of shear stress for cast iron may be taken as 14 MPa.
We know that torque transmitted by a hollow section,

From this expression, the induced shear stress in the sleeve may be checked.
2. Design for key
The key for the coupling may be designed in the similar way as discussed in Unit-5. The
width and thickness of the coupling key is obtained from the proportions. The length of the
coupling key is at least equal to the length of the sleeve (i.e. 3.5 d). The coupling key is
usually made into two parts so that the length of the key in each shaft,

After fixing the length of key in each shaft, the induced shearing and crushing stresses may
be checked. We know that torque transmitted,

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Note: The depth of the keyway in each of the shafts to be connected should be exactly the
same and the diameters should also be same. If these conditions are not satisfied, then the key
will be bedded on one shaft while in the other it will be loose. In order to prevent this, the key
is made in two parts which may be driven from the same end for each shaft or they may be
driven from opposite ends.
References:
1. Machine Design - V.Bandari .
2. Machine Design – R.S. Khurmi
3. Design Data hand Book - S MD Jalaludin.

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