Overview
- Provides a uniform formula for the design of any planar four-bar linkages
- Develops Burmester theory to fit for the design with any number of specified positions
- Offers a method to build the statics and structural dynamics of complex planar linkages
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering (STME)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Planar linkages play a very important role in mechanical engineering. As the simplest closed chain mechanisms, planar four-bar linkages are widely used in mechanical engineering, civil engineering and aerospace engineering.
Design of Special Planar Linkages proposes a uniform design theory for planar four-bar linkages. The merit of the method proposed in this book is that it allows engineers to directly obtain accurate results when there are such solutions for the specified n precise positions; otherwise, the best approximate solutions will be found. This book discusses the kinematics and reachable workspace and singularity of a planar 3-RRR linkage, which can be used to analyze other planar linkages. Then a foldable stair that retains the walking conversions of human beings and all the merits of a concrete stair in civil engineering is described along with a lifting guidance mechanism that has the advantages of high strength, high rigidity, lightweight overconstraint trusses and motion flexibility. The method proposed in this book can be applied to other planar linkages.
This book offers a valuable resource for scientists, researchers, engineers, graduate students in mechanical engineering especially those interested in engineering design, robotics and automation.
Jingshan Zhao, Associate professor; Zhijing Feng and Fulei Chu, professor; Ning Ma, Dr., all work at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design of Special Planar Linkages
Authors: Jingshan Zhao, Zhijing Feng, Ning Ma, Fulei Chu
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38448-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38447-9Published: 13 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51353-8Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38448-6Published: 31 August 2013
Series ISSN: 2195-9862
Series E-ISSN: 2195-9870
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 330 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Design, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics