Two shafts ‘A’ and ‘B’ are made of same material. The shaft ‘A’ is solid and has diameter D. The shaft ‘B’ is hollow with outer diameter D and inner diameter D/2. The strength of hollow shaft in torsion is __________ as that of solid shaft.

Jan-16
1-Aug
1-Apr
15/16
✅ The correct answer is option D.

A compound steam engine in which piston rods of high pressure and low pressure cylinders are attached to two different cranks set at 90° to each other, is called

receiver type compound engine
Tandem type compound engine
Woolf type compound engine
both (a) and (b)
✅ The correct answer is option A.