Showing posts with label Strength of Materials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strength of Materials. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 May 2014

Bending moment

A bending moment is a measure of the average internal stress induced in a structural element when an external force or moment is applied to the element causing the element to bend.

The internal stresses in a cross-section of a structural element can be resolved into a resultant force and a resultant couple. For equilibrium, the moment created by external forces (and external moments) must be balanced by the couple induced by the internal stresses. The resultant internal couple is called the bending moment while the resultant internal force is called the shear force (if it is transverse to the plane of element) or the normal force (if it is along the plane of the element).
 

Friday, 11 April 2014

Spring:-
A spring is an elastic object used to store mechanical energy . Springs are usually made out of spring steel. Small springs can be wound from pre-hardened stock, while larger ones are made from annealed steel and hardened after fabrication. Some non-ferrous metals are also used including phosphor bronze and titanium for.parts requiring corrosion resistance and beryllium.copper for springs carrying electrical current (because of its low electrical resistance).








Centrifugal pump

Centrifugal pumps are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbomachinery. Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow. The rotational energy typically comes from an engine or electric motor. The fluid enters the pump impeller along or near to the rotating axis and is accelerated by the impeller, flowing radially outward into a diffuser or volute chamber (casing), from where it exits.

Common uses include water, sewage, petroleum and petrochemical pumping. The reverse function of the centrifugal pump is a water turbine converting potential energy of water pressure into mechanical rotational energy.






Ball Valve 



Globe Valve








IMPULSE TURBINE AND REACTION TURBINE



Pelton Turbine



SGT5 - 8000H ( WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL GAS TURBINE)

The Siemens SGT5-8000H is the world’s most powerful gas turbine with a gross power output of 375 MW. 

It is designed for 400 MW in simple cycle operation and 600 MW in combined cycle operation. 

The SGT5-8000H has an efficiency of 60.75 percent in combined cycle operation which makes it the most important component of the most efficient gas-fired power plants in the world.

Environmental protection considerations as well as economic factors were taken into account in the development of the SGT5-8000H.




Kaplan turbine

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Types of beam in strength of Materials.

Friday, 21 March 2014




In solid mechanics, torsion is the twisting of an object due to an applied torque, therefore is expressed in N·m or ft·lbf. In sections perpendicular to the torque axis, the resultant shear stress in this section is perpendicular to the radius.