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The document contains 30 multiple choice questions related to vibration, balancing of rotating machinery, and critical speeds. The questions cover topics such as whirling speed, calculating critical speed of a rotor shaft, critical damping coefficient, frequency of free vibrations of a spring-mass system, centrifugal force due to unbalance, effects of unbalanced forces, balancing of reciprocating masses, advantages of multi-cylinder engines, secondary forces in reciprocating engines, balancing of single-cylinder and V-twin engines, swaying and tractive forces, and forced and free vibrations.

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MCQs DOM

The document contains 30 multiple choice questions related to vibration, balancing of rotating machinery, and critical speeds. The questions cover topics such as whirling speed, calculating critical speed of a rotor shaft, critical damping coefficient, frequency of free vibrations of a spring-mass system, centrifugal force due to unbalance, effects of unbalanced forces, balancing of reciprocating masses, advantages of multi-cylinder engines, secondary forces in reciprocating engines, balancing of single-cylinder and V-twin engines, swaying and tractive forces, and forced and free vibrations.

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1) The speed at which the shaft runs so that the additional deflection from the axis of rotation

of the shaft becomes infinite, is known as _________


a) Whirling speed
b) Rotational speed
c) Stabilizing speed
d) Reciprocating speed

2) The rotor shaft of a large electric motor supported between short bearings at both deflection
of 1.8 mm in the middle of the rotor. Assuming the rotor to be perfectly balanced and
supported at knife edges at both the ends, the likely critical speed (in rpm) of the shaft
is___________

Ans : 704.96 rpm

3) Calculate critical damping coefficient in Ns/m from the following data.


mass = 200Kg
ω = 20rad/s
a) 25,132
b) 26,132
c) 27,132
d) Not possible

4) A body of mass 20 kg is suspended from a spring which deflects 20mm under this load.
Calculate the frequency of free vibrations in Hz.
a) 3.5
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

5) Which of the following is true for centrifugal force causing unbalance?


a) Direction changes with rotation
b) Magnitude changes with rotation
c) Direction and magnitude both change with rotation
d) Direction and magnitude both remain unchanged with rotation

6) In a revolving rotor, the centrifugal force remains balanced as long as the centre of the
mass of the rotor lies ___________
a) Below the axis of shaft
b) On the axis of the shaft
c) Above the axis of shaft
d) Away from the axis of shaft

7) What is not the effect of unbalanced forces?


a) Load on bearings
b) Dangerous vibrations
c) Stresses in various members
d) Violation of conservation of mass principle

8) Balancing of reciprocating masses is the process of providing the second mass in order to
counteract the effect of the centrifugal force of the first mass.
a) True
b) False

9) Multi-cylinder engines are desirable because


a) only balancing problems are reduced
b) only flywheel size is reduced
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of the mentioned

10) Secondary forces in reciprocating mass on engine frame are


a) of same frequency as of primary forces
b) twice the frequency as of primary forces
c) four times the frequency as of primary forces
d) none of the mentioned

11) When the primary direct crank of a reciprocating engine makes an angle θ with the line of
stroke, then the secondary direct crank will make an angle of . . . . . with the line of stroke.
a) θ /2
b) θ
c) 2 θ
d) 4 θ

12) Which of the following statements is correct about the balancing of a mechanical system?
a) If it is under static balance, then there will be dynamic balance also
b) If it is under dynamic balance, then there will be static balance also
c) Both static as well as dynamic balance have to be achieved separately
d) None of the mentioned

13) Let the disturbing mass be 100 kg and the radius of rotation be 10 cm and the rotation
speed be 50 rad/s, then calculate the centrifugal force in kN.
a) 50
b) 25
c) 50000
d) 25000

14) Let the disturbing mass be 100 kg and the radius of rotation be 20 cm and the rotation
speed be 50 rad/s, then calculate the centrifugal force in kN.
a) 50
b) 25
c) 50000
d) 25000
15) In balancing of single-cylinder engine, the rotating unbalance is ____________
a) completely made zero and so also the reciprocating unbalance
b) completely made zero and the reciprocating unbalance is partially reduced
c) partially reduced and the reciprocating unbalance is completely made zero
d) partially reduced and so also the reciprocating unbalance

16) Let the disturbing mass be 50 Kg, with radius of rotation = 0.1m, if one of the balancing
mass is 30 Kg at a radius of rotation 0.1m then find the other balancing mass situated at a
distance of 0.2m.
a) 80
b) 40
c) 20
d) 10

17) At which of the following angles in degrees does the swaying couple attains a maximum
value?
a) 135
b) 45
c) 90
d) 60

18) Find the maximum value of swaying couple in newtons from the following data:
m = 100Kg
ω = 300 rpm
radius = 0.6m
𝒂
c = 2/3 max swaying couple = (𝟏 − 𝒄)𝒎𝒓𝝎𝟐
√𝟐
a=2 2 m
a) 6978 ans does not match with the options.
b) 7574
c) 6568
d) 7374

19) The unbalanced forces along the line of stroke for the two cylinders constitute a ______
about the centre line between the cylinders.
a) Tension
b) Compression
c) Torsion
d) Couple

20) This couple has swaying effect about a horizontal axis.


a) True
b) False

21) If the maximum value occurs at 45 degrees then at which of the following angles in
degrees will the swaying couple attains its maximum value again?
a) 135
b) 45
c) 225
d) 60

22) Hammering action on the rails is caused by _______


a) Variation of pressure on the rails
b) Variation of temperature on the rails
c) Variation of thermal infusibility of the rails
d) Variation of crank effort

23) At which of the following angles in degrees does the tractive force attains a maximum
value?
a) 135
b) 45
c) 90
d) 60

24) Find the maximum value of tractive force in newtons from the following data:
m = 100Kg
ω = 300 rpm
radius = 0.6m max tractive force =√2(1 − 𝑐)𝑚𝑟𝜔 2
c = 2/3
a) 6978 ans does not match with the options.
b) 7574
c) 6568
d) 7374

25) Tractive force attains a maxima or minima when the crank angle is 90 degrees.
a) True
b) False

26) For a V-twin engine, which of the following means can be used to balance the primary
forces?
a) Revolving balance mass
b) Rotating balance mass
c) Reciprocating balance mass
d) by the means of secondary forces

27) A V-twin engine has the cylinder axes at 90 degrees and the connecting rods operate a
common crank. The reciprocating mass per cylinder is 34.5 kg and the crank radius is 7.5 cm.
The length of the connecting rod is 0.3 m. If the engine is rotating at the speed is 500 r.p.m.
What is the value of maximum resultant secondary force in kN?
a) 2.238
b) 2.508
√𝟐
c) 2.754 formula : 𝒎𝒓𝝎𝟐
𝒏
d) 2.908
28) In steady state forced vibrations, the amplitude of vibrations at resonance is
_____________ damping coefficient.
a) equal to
b) directly proportional to
c) inversely proportional to
d) independent of

29) Find the displacement in mm of the free longitudinal vibrations if the Natural frequency is
15 Hz.
a) 1.1
b) 1.2
c) 1.5
d) 1.6

30) A cantilever shaft has a diameter of 6 cm and the length is 40cm, it has a disc of mass
125 kg at its free end. The Young’s modulus for the shaft material is 250 GN/m². Calculate the
static deflection in nm.
a) 0.001
b) 0.083
c) 1.022
d) 0.065

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