MACHINE ELEMENTS


General Info


  • Course Title: Machine Elements
  • Course Code: NAMOME1215
  • Semester: 3rd
  • Course Type: S.B.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 4 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 5
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NAFP118/
  • Professors: G. Livanos


Course Content / Syllabus


1. Connectors (screws, bolts). Calculations, bolt pre-tensioning. Tightening torque of bolts. 2. Power transfer elements. Spindles, (strength, spindle deformation, critical speed). Spines, belts, pulleys, chains. 3. Components for load lifting (flexible and steel cables, properties, calculation, Pulleys and drums of steel cables). 4. Power connectors (couplings, mechanical and hydraulic clutches). 5. Gears (tooth modeling, basic tooth law, tooth shape, involute curve construction, and strength and tooth calculation). 6. Rolling and sliding bearings (description, types, lubrication, and selection). 7. Springs (description, types, calculations) 8. Pressure tanks (design calculations) 9. Basic principles of vibrations and dynamic position of axial ship system. 10. Axial ship system alignment. (Calculation of reactions in bearings, preparation of alignment plan) 11. Design of the ship speed reduction propulsion unit.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎