Kinematics and Design of Planar Mechanisms

by C. H. Chiang

Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
ISBN: 1575241544

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Book Description

This book is in three parts. Part I introduces some fundamental concepts of instantaneous planar kinematics, and then reviews some special techniques of mechanism analysis. Part II, which is the largest section, deals with dimensional synthesis, or design, of planar linkages. Three types of dimensional synthesis problems are considered: body guidance, path generation, and function generation. For each sort of problem, a geometrical as well as an algebraic method is presented. The algebraic method used is the matrix method, to facilitate computer programming. As non-linear equations are not involved, the numerical method is excluded from this book. Part III describes the harmonic analysis of motion and kinetic energy in planar four-link mechanisms. This book serves as a graduate-level text, as well as a self-teaching handbook for the professional designer of mechanisms.

Customer Reviews

This book contains a theoretically sound introduction to mechanism design. Each topic is very well explained. I strongly recommend this book for anyone seriously interested in learning about kinematics of mechanisms. I got interested in kinematics long time (1980) ago after reading the papers from Prof. C.H. Chiang. I like very much the author's teaching style. He also authored an outstanding book on spherical kinematics.

Professor Chiang geometrical approaches to build their mechanisms. Even tough it is a good book i prefer Burton Paul's kinematics of planar machinery.