Fundamentals of Machine Theory and Mechanisms

✍ Scribed by Antonio Simón Mata, Alex Bataller Torras, Juan Antonio Cabrera Carrillo, Francisco Ezquerro Juanco, Antonio Jesús Guerra Fernández, Fernando Nadal Martínez, Antonio Ortiz Fernández (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Series: Mechanisms and Machine Science 40
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book develops the basic content for an introductory course in Mechanism and Machine Theory. The text is clear and simple, supported by more than 350 figures. More than 60 solved exercises have been included to mark the translation of this book from Spanish into English. Topics treated include:
dynamic analysis of machines; introduction to vibratory behavior; rotor and piston balanced; critical speed for shafts; gears and train gears; synthesis for planar mechanisms; and kinematic and dynamic analysis for robots. The chapters in relation to kinematics and dynamics for planar mechanisms can be studied with the help of WinMecc software, which allows the reader to study in an easy and intuitive way, but exhaustive at the same time. This computer program analyzes planar mechanisms of one-degree of freedom and whatever number of links. The program allows users to build a complex mechanism. They can modify any input data in real time changing values in a numeric way or using the computer mouse to manipulate links and vectors while mechanism is moving and showing the results. This powerful tool does not only show the results in a numeric way by means of tables and diagrams but also in a visual way with scalable vectors and curves.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Kinematic Chains....Pages 1-20
Kinematic Analysis of Mechanisms. Relative Velocity and Acceleration. Instant Centers of Rotation....Pages 21-110
Analytical Methods for the Kinematic Analysis of Planar Linkages. Raven’s Method....Pages 111-141
Graphical and Analytical Methods for Dynamic Analysis of Planar Linkages....Pages 143-193
Balancing of Machinery....Pages 195-231
Flywheel Calculations....Pages 233-248
Vibrations in Systems with One Degree of Freedom....Pages 249-277
Gears....Pages 279-313
Gear Trains....Pages 315-330
Synthesis of Planar Mechanisms....Pages 331-365
Back Matter....Pages 367-409

✦ Subjects

Mechanical Engineering; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Mechanics