Question: When a rear - wheel drive car accelerates around a bend at high speeds, the drive shaft is subject to both bending and torsional loads.

When a rear-wheel drive car accelerates around a bend at high speeds, the drive shaft is subject
to both bending and torsional loads. The accelerating torque is reasonably constant at 400N.m
while the bending moment at a critical section varies due to cornering and is measured to be
Mm=250 N.m and Ma=800 N.m. Design the shaft for infinite life using DE-Goodman and
DE-Soderberg criteria assuming the shaft is uniform cross-section. The reliability in estimating
the endurance limit should be at least 99% and a safety factor of 4.5 should be used in the
design. The shaft is forged from 1080 steel of ultimate strength 620 MPa and yield strength
380 MPa . Use the iterative shaft design procedure and show all the steps in your supporting
work. Your answers should be rounded-up to the nearest 110thmm.
DE-Goodman criterion, d=
DE-Soderberg criterion, d=
When a rear - wheel drive car accelerates around

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