‫جامعة القصيم‬ Qassim University

‫كلية الهندسة‬ Facility of Engineering

‫قسم الهندسة الميكانيكية‬ Mechanical Engineering Dpt.

ME 363
Mechanical of Machinery Lab
Semester: 422

# Report

BY

Team number 1

AYOUB MOHAMED
ID:391115642

Team Members, ID ABDULAZIZ SULAIMAN

and Names ID:391108063

MOHAMMED AL-SUHAIBANI
ID:391108293

Submitted to Dr. Hussein Zain

Date
 Table of Contents
1......................................................................................................... Abstract 
2............................................................................................... 1- Introduction 
1.............................................................................. 1-1 Applications 
2........................................................................................... 1-2 Theory 
3..............................1-2-1 Mathematical Equations 
3................................................................................. 2- Experiment procedure 
4............................................................................. 3- Method and Equipment’s 
5.................................................................................. 4- Result and Discussion 
5......................................................... 4-1 Theoretical analysis 
6........................................................ 4-2 Experiment analysis 
8.................................................................................................. 5- Conclusion 
9...................................................................................................... Reference 
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• Abstract
In this report we will write about HOOK’S COUBLING Experiment which
we have done it in Machinery Lab, in this experiment, and we have two
parts in this experiment the theoretical and the experimental part and we
will see the difference between these two parts. we have two deflection
angles 20, 30.and we will change the input angle of the coupling starting
.with 0,30 until 360 degree and we will measure the output angle
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• 1
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Introduction
In this Experiment we are going to use HOOK’S COUBLING and it’s used to transmit
torque between two shafts that either tend to lie in the same line or slightly misaligned, coupling
is used based of the application and there are various types of coupling for example :1-RIGID
FLANGE COUPLING 2-UNIVERSAL COUPLING.[1]
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And the objectives of this experiment are to: 1- determine Ø2 2- calculate Gimbal
error 3- calculate the theoretical analysis 4- plotting Gimbal error vs input angle
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 1-1 Applications

 Application No.1 Shown in Figure 1

 Application No.2 Shown in Figure 2
 Application No.3 Shown in Figure 3
Coupling between the gearbox and the Connect two non-parallel and intersecting
wheels of automobile shafts, having small angle between their axis

Figure 1, [1] Figure 2, [2]

To reduce the carriage of shock loads from one shaft to another

Figure 3, [3]

 1-2 Theory
 we used to important equation to get the φ 2 and get the Gimbal error(e)
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tan (φ)
I. Tan(φ 2) = cos ⁡(α )
II. e =∆ φ= φ 2−φ 1
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GIMBAL ERROR VS INPUT ANGLE
6

4
Gibbal error(e)

0
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

-2

-4
Theoretical 20º Theoretical 30º
-6 Experimental 20º Experimental 30º
Input Angle(Ø1,0)

Figure 4

Where:

I. φ1 Getting from
II. φ 2 Getting from

III. α Getting from Theoretical 20° and 30°.

 1-2-1 Mathematical Equations

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• 2- Experiment procedure

• 3- Method and Equipment’s

Hook’s Coupling Apparatus

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2
1

Figure 5, [4]

:Where
I. Hand wheel for input shaft
II. Connected the input shaft with the output shaft
III. Degree of the input shaft and output shaft
IV. Degree of Phi
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• 4- Result and Discussion

 4-1 Theoretical analysis
Reflection angle Input (Ø1) Theoretical analysis
output angle (Ø2) Gimbal error(e)
0 0 0
30 31.6 1.6
60 61.5 1.5
90 90 0

20º
120 118.5 -1.5
150 148.5 -1.5
180 180 0
210 211.5 1.5
240 241.5 1.5
270 270 0
300 298.5 -1.5
330 328.5 -1.5
360 360 0
0 0 0
30 33.7 3.7
60 63.4 3.4
90 90 0
120 116.6 -3.4

30º
150 146.3 -3.7
180 180 0
210 213.7 3.7
240 243.4
270 270 0
300 296.6 3.4
330 326.3 3.7
360 360 0

 4-2 Experiment analysis

Reflection angle Input (Ø1) Experimental analysis
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output angle (Ø2) Gimbal error(e)

0 1 1
30 33 3
60 62 2
90 90.5 0.5

20º
120 121 1
150 150 0
180 181 1
210 214 4
240 243 3
270 271 1
300 300 0
330 330.5 0.5
360 361 1
0 2 2
30 35 5
60 63 3
90 90 0
120 117 -3

30º
150 149 -1
180 183 3
210 216 6
240 245 5
270 270 0
300 298 -2
330 330.5 0.5
360 362 2
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8
GIMBAL ERROR VS INPUT ANGLE
6

4
Gibbal error(e)

0
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

-2

-4
Theoretical 20º Theoretical 30º
-6
Experimental 20º Experimental 30º
Input Angle(Ø1,0)

 As you can see in the graph the Experimental curves didn’t match the
Theoretical curves and that was expected because of the human errors,
let’s take the first reflection angle and it’s 20º(Green-Blue) you can see
the curve is wavy at some point it’s not smooth as the Theoretical curve
and that’s an evidence of the human errors, in the 30º reflection angle
(Red-Yellow) we can see that the curves are closer together and that
means the 30º curve has less human errors than the 20º.

• 5- Conclusion
This invention changed a lot of things in mechanical machines it help
the engineers to create a very flexible machine can be rotated or move it
by itself, helps a lot to improve the ability of transitions.
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• Reference
I. Website: https://www.howacarworks.com/basics/how-the-transmission-works, visted in :
1/2/2021 at 5:00 pm.
II. Website: http://4mechtech.blogspot.com/2014/06/Flexible-Coupling-and-it-types.html,
visted in : 1/2/2021 at 5:30 pm.
III. Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/transmission-
shaft, visted in : 1/2/2021 at 8:00 pm.
IV. Qassim university, Faculity of Engineering, Course: Introduction to engineering
design \\ , Experiment # 1 Hook’s Coupling, February 2021