which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission, solid or hollow one?

Categories >> Engineering >> Mechanical Engineering
Suggest New Category

which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission,
solid or hollow one?

Question Posted / laxmikant muley

5 Answers
15671 Views
I also Faced
E-Mail Answers

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback

which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission, solid or hollow one?..

Answer / zahid hussain

In heavy power transmission hollow shaft is used. For
example in case of gas turbine and steam turbine where you
need to transmit thousand of horse powers from turbine to
generator, the hollow shafts are used because of its
stiffness and mass ratio.

Is This Answer Correct ?

15 Yes

5 No

which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission, solid or hollow one?..

Answer / mohit

solid shaft is use

Is This Answer Correct ?

12 Yes

6 No

which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission, solid or hollow one?..

Answer / arphan

hollow shaft is used because it has a tendency to overcome
bending and it is more stiffer than solid shaft.

Is This Answer Correct ?

6 Yes

4 No

which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission, solid or hollow one?..

Answer / nikhil thakre

solid shaft is use ,but its case depth hardness should be
less than surface hardness of shaft

Is This Answer Correct ?

6 Yes

6 No

which type of shaft is preferred for power transmission, solid or hollow one?..

Answer / pramendra vishwakarma

hollow shaft is preferred for high load power transmission
because it has higher moment of inertia than solid shaft.

Is This Answer Correct ?

2 Yes

5 No

Post New Answer

More Mechanical Engineering Interview Questions

Why do not use flywheel in petrol engine

4 Answers

what is second law of thermodyanamic

12 Answers HPCL,

hii sir. how will CAE/CFD courses useful to B.tech freshers? is this courses useful to getting job in automobile industry? plz give rply..

0 Answers

The fatigue life of a part can be improved by ?

2 Answers Essar,

what is gear

8 Answers

Why the rear tyre of a tractor is having a larger diameter than the front ??? ASAP...

2 Answers

what is difference between pipe and tube.

4 Answers Jaiprakash, Sterlite,

types of turbions

4 Answers

PLZ. PLZ. PLZ. Pay attention can i have details regarding QMS/SPC/MSA/TS16949 ?????

1 Answers

AS WE KNOW THAT TODAY VEHICLE R COMING IN MARKET WITHOUT CARBURATOR. IN THIS SITUATION HOW DOES THE ENGINE WORK.

2 Answers Maruti Suzuki,

two commonly used firing order of a 4-cylinder inline engine?

3 Answers

Name of any five measuring instruments?

0 Answers

For more Mechanical Engineering Interview Questions Click Here