Convert solid shaft to hollow shaft

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The discussion centers around the conversion of a solid shaft to a hollow shaft, specifically focusing on calculating the internal and external diameters of the hollow shaft based on given parameters. The context includes bending stress calculations and the relationship between solid and hollow shaft dimensions.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant presents a solid aluminium shaft with a diameter of 0.118m and seeks to determine the dimensions of a hollow shaft with the external diameter being 2.5 times greater than the internal diameter.
  • Another participant suggests using equations for bending stress in terms of applied bending moment for both solid and hollow shafts, proposing to equate the ratio of bending stress to bending moment for both types.
  • It is noted that the second moment of area should be conserved, leading to the equation Isolid = Ihollow, with a reference to the formula for the moment of inertia for both shaft types.
  • A participant provides specific formulas for bending stress in solid and hollow shafts and derives a relationship between the external diameter of the hollow shaft and the diameter of the solid shaft, questioning the validity of preserving the ratio of bending stress to bending moment.
  • There is a request for clarification on the final relationship between the solid shaft diameter and the hollow shaft's outside diameter.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express uncertainty regarding the calculations and relationships involved, with no consensus reached on the final equations or the appropriateness of the assumptions made.

Contextual Notes

There are potential limitations in the assumptions regarding the conservation of the second moment of area and the relationships between the diameters, which remain unresolved.

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I have a "bending stress" question, which is causing me "actual stress"...
I have a solid 30m Aluminium shaft, which I need to replace with an equivalent hollow shaft, but I am having difficulty in calculating the internal and external diameters.

The solid shaft diameter is 0.118m, and all I know about the hollow shaft is that the external diameter should be 2.5 times greater than the internal diameter.

I worked out the second moment of area for the solid shaft (9.5*10^-6), but can't seem to find the right way of using this to find the hollow shaft dimensions.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.
 
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Been a long time since I did anything like this so I might be wrong but..

Have you got equations for the bending stress (F) developed in terms of applied bending moment(M) for both hollow and solid?
Presumably the ratio of F/M for both needs to be the same so equate.
See what cancels.
Substitute ID = OD/2.5

Something like that anyway.
 
Sounds like you'd just be inevitably conserving the second moment of area for the shaft such that Isolid = Ihollow and for a shaft I = πD4/4
 
I found..

For solid
FS = 32M/(pi * Ds3)
and for hollow
FH = 32MOD/(Pi(OD4 - ID4)

where
F = bending stress
M = bending moment
Ds = diameter of solid
OD = Outside Diamater of hollow shaft
ID = Inside Diamater of hollow shaft

If you rearrange these to give the ratio F/M for both and equate it simplifies to :

OD = (OD4 - ID4) / Ds3

Can then substitute for ID = OD / 2.5 to give an equation for the OD of the hollow shaft in terms of the diameter for the solid.

but as I said it's been a long time since I did this. Does it even make sense to preserve the ratio of F/M ?

Edit: Oops I'd better check my working as it looks like the OD of the hollow shaft gets smaller as the solid one gets bigger.
 
What was the final relationship between solid shaft dia.and hollow shaft outside dia
 

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