APPLIED MECHANICS 2

EXPERIMENT #4
BELT FRICTION

ENGI 13386
Olufemi Adegun

Performed by: Damien R. Samad

Submitted: 18-Jun-2008

Applied Mechanics 1 Experiment #1

Addition & Resolution of Vectors 1 Group G
Results

Weight (W) (g) 1000 1000 1

Tl 16 16
Ts 10 9
ln (T l/T s) 0.470 0.575 0.
θ (radians) 0.698 0.663 0.
µ 0.673 0.868 0.
Torque (WxR) (Kg·m) 0.021 0.021 0.
Horsepower (Eq2) 0.054 0.063 0.
Horsepower (Eq3) 0.050 0.050 0.
Pulley Radius (r) (m) 0.0369 Pulley Radius (R) (m) 0.0
n (rpm) 1725 N (rpm) 1
Equation 1: ln (Tl/Ts) = µθ
Equation 2: HP = (Tl/Ts) · (2·π·r·n) / 44760
Equation 3: HP = (W·9.81) · (2·π·R·N) / 44760

Applied Mechanics 1 Experiment #1

Addition & Resolution of Vectors 2 Group G
Calculations:

Applied Mechanics 1 Experiment #1

Addition & Resolution of Vectors 3 Group G
Conclusions

It was noticed that the horsepower calculated by the tension (equation 2) was slightly
greater with the lower grit sandpaper. The calculated horsepower by torque (equation 3)
was equal across the three trials, as the weight and the radius were the same for each of
the trials. Also, the angle theta decreased slightly with the lower grit sandpapers;
however the variance could be due to human error when reading the measurements. In
future, to effectively measure angles and perform the experiment more than a single setup
and a single set of figures would be more reliable. This was not possible due to time
constraints within the lab class period.

Applied Mechanics 1 Experiment #1

Addition & Resolution of Vectors 4 Group G