BODIES IN PURE ROLLING CONTACT
ROLLING MOTION
• Rolling is a motion that combines rotation and translation of a body.
PURE ROLLING CONTACT
• Consists of such a relative motion of two lines or surfaces.
• Consecutive points or elements of one come successively into contact with those of the other in
their order.
• There is no slipping between two surfaces which have pure rolling contact.
• All points in contact have same linear speed.
The bodies may be rotating in their respective axis, so arranged that, by pure rolling contact, one may
cause the other to turn with an angular speed bearing a definite ratio to the angular speed of the driver.
This speed ratio may be constant or variable, depending upon the forms of the two bodies.
The axes may be parallel, intersecting, or neither parallel nor intersecting.
With axes that are neither parallel nor intersecting, the coinciding elements of the rolling bodies may
slide on each other in the direction of their length, so that the contact is not pure rolling in a strict sense.
Parallel Axis Intersecting Axis Non-Parallel
Non-Intersecting Axis
CYLINDERS ROLLING TOGETHER WITHOUT SLIPPING
EXTERNAL CONTACT
• The center to center distance is given by:
• The direction of the rotation of the rolling bodies is opposite.
• Surface speed of the first cylinder and second cylinder is the same (without slipping.)
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• Surface speed of the first cylinder and second cylinder is the same (without slipping.)
• The angular speeds of two cylinders which roll together without slipping are inversely
proportional to the radii of the cylinders.
INTERNAL CONTACT
• The center to center distance is given by:
• The direction of the rotation of the rolling bodies is the same.
• Surface speed of the first cylinder and second cylinder is the same (without slipping.)
• The angular speeds of two cylinders which roll together without slipping are inversely
proportional to the radii of the cylinders.
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Example 1
1. A cylinder 24 in. in diameter on shaft S drives, by pure rolling contact, another cylinder 2 on shaft T. Shaft S has an
angular speed of 600 radians per minute. Shaft T turns 143.25 rpm in the opposite direction from S. Calculate the
diameter of the cylinder 2 and the distance between the axes of the shafts.
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Example 2
2. Two parallel shafts, 24 inches apart and having speed ratio of 3, are connected by
cylinders in pure rolling contact. Determine the diameters of the cylinders:
a. When they turn in opposite direction
b. When they turn in same direction
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