Component Shaft

Shaft is a stationary part of the Paddle Wheel, usually berpenampang round where mounted elements such as gear (gear), pulley, flywheel, crank, sprocket and other switching elements. Axle could receive bending loads, towing load, compressive load or torsion loads are working on their own or be combined with one another. Power shaft to pass on classified according to the following assignment.

1. Transmission Shaft

Figure 3.2 Shaft transmission

This kind of shaft torsional load gets pure or twisting and bending. Power is transmitted by this shaft through a clutch, gears, pulleys belt or chain sprocket.

2. Spindel
Relatively short transmission shaft, such as the main shaft of machine tools, where the main burden of torsion loads, called the spindle, the requirements that must be met is the deformation axis should be small and the shape and size must be thorough.

Figure 3.3 Spindel

3. Axle

Figure 3.4 Shaft axle

Such shafts are mounted between the wheel – the wheel carriage of goods, which do not receive twisting loads, sometimes – sometimes not be spun, called the garden. This garden just got a bending load, unless driven by prime movers, where it undergoes twisting loads as well.

Figure 3.5 Crankshaft