Machine Design MCQ with Answers

When two non-parallel or intersecting, but coplaner shafts are connected by gears, then these gears are called bevel gears and the arrangement is known as bevel gearing.

When equal bevel gears (having equal teeth) connect two shafts whose axes are mutually perpendicular, then the bevel gears are known as mitre gears.

A structural member, subjected to an axial compressive force, is called a strut. A strut may be horizontal, inclined or even vertical. But a vertical strut, used in buildings or frames, is called a column.