Solid Mechanics-I (ME-202)
CHAPTER-5
EQUATION OF TORSION
Course Teacher: Dr Maaz Akhtar (Associate Professor)
Mechanical Engineering Department
, ANGLE OF TWIST
• Consider a tapered shaft as shown in figure below:
• In tapered shaft, both Torque and Polar moment of inertia
changes with respect to ‘x’.
• Using figure, relationship for shear strain and angle of
twist can be developed i.e.
𝝆𝒅𝝓 = 𝜸𝒅𝒙
Solid Mechanics-I 10 Torsion
CHAPTER-5
EQUATION OF TORSION
Course Teacher: Dr Maaz Akhtar (Associate Professor)
Mechanical Engineering Department
, ANGLE OF TWIST
• Consider a tapered shaft as shown in figure below:
• In tapered shaft, both Torque and Polar moment of inertia
changes with respect to ‘x’.
• Using figure, relationship for shear strain and angle of
twist can be developed i.e.
𝝆𝒅𝝓 = 𝜸𝒅𝒙
Solid Mechanics-I 10 Torsion
