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Mechanism Design: Enumeration of Kinematic Structures According to Function, by Lung-Wen Tsai, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, XXXX.
The most difficult problem most mechanism designers face at the conceptual design phase is the creation and selection of a most promising kinematic structure. Mechanism Design: Enumeration of Kinematic Structures According to Function introduces a methodology for systematic enumeration and classification of mechanisms that is not available in any other resource. With a partly analytical and partly algorithmic approach, the author uses graph theory, combinatorial analysis, and computer algorithms to create kinematic structures of the same nature in a systematic and unbiased manner. He sketches mechanism structures, evaluates them with respect to the remaining functional requirements, and provides numerous atlases of mechanisms that can be used by engineers as a source of ideas for mechanism and machine design. This book presents you with a methodology to arrive at the best design in the shortest time possible and, therefore, improve the product quality.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Basic Concept of Graph Theory
Chapter 3. Structural Representations of Mechanisms
Chapter 4. Structural Analysis of Mechanisms
Chapter 5. Enumeration of Graphs of Kinematic Chains
Chapter 6. Classification of Mechanisms
Chapter 7. Epicyclic Gear Trains
Chapter 8. Automotive Mechanisms
Chapter 9. Robotic Mechanisms
Appendix A. Solving m Linear Equations in n Unknowns
Appendix B. Atlas of Contracted Graphs
Appendix C. Atlas of Graphs of Kinematic Chains
Appendix D. Atlas of Planar Bar Linkages
Appendix E. Atlas of Spatial One-DOF Kinematic Chains
Appendix F. Atlas of Epicyclic Gear Trains
Appendix G. Atlas of Epicyclic Gear Transmission Mechanisms
