A bevel-gear shaft mounted on two 40-mm 02-series ball bearings is driven at 1720 rev/min by a motor connected through a flexible coupling. The figure shows the shaft, the gear, and the bearings. The shaft has been giving trouble—in fact, two of them have already failed—and the down time on the machine is so expensive that you have decided to redesign the shaft yourself rather than order replacements. A hardness check of the two shafts in the vicinity of the fracture of the two shafts showed an average of 198 Bhn for one and 204 Bhn of the other. As closely as you can estimate the two shafts failed at a life measure between 600 000 and 1 200 000 cycles of operation. The surfaces of the shaft were machined, but not ground. The fillet sizes were not measured, but they correspond with the recommendations for the ball bearings used. You know that the load is a pulsating or shock-type load, but you have no idea of the magnitude, because the shaft drives an indexing mechanism, and the forces are inertial. The keyways are 3/8 in wide by 3/16 in deep.

The straight-toothed bevel pinion drives a 48-tooth bevel gear. Specify a new shaft in sufficient detail to ensure a long and trouble-freelife.

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