Advanced Mechanical Design

Introduction: Concepts related to kinematics and mechanisms, Degrees of freedom, Grubler’s Criteria, Transmission and Deviation angles, Mechanical advantage.

Kinematic Synthesis: Type, number and dimensional synthesis, Spacing of accuracy points, Chebyshev polynomials, Motion and function generation, Graphical synthesis with two, three and four prescribed motions and points, The complex number modeling in kinematic synthesis, The Dyad, Standard form, Freudentein’s equation for three point function generation coupler curves, Robert’s law, Cognates of the slider crank chain.

Path Curvature Theory: Fixed and moving centrode, Inflection points and inflection circle circle, Euler’-savary Equation, Bobillier’s and Hartsman construction.

Dynamic Force Analysis: Introduction, Inertia force in linkages, Kineto static analysis by superposition and matrix approach, Time response of mechanisms, Force and moment balancing of linkages.

Spatial Mechanism: Introduction to 3-dimensional mechanisms, Planar Finite, Rigid body and spatial transformation, Analysis of spatial mechanisms.

Books:

1. Fundamentals of applied Kinematics D.C. Tao Addison Wesley

2. Kinematic Synthesis of Linkages R. Hartenberg and Denavit McGraw Hill

3. Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms A.K. Mallik and A. Ghosh CRC Press

4. Theory of Mechanisms A.K. Mallik and A. Ghosh East west Press

5. Kinematics and Dynamics of Plane Mechanisms J. Hirschern McGraw Hill, NY

6. Mechanism Synthesis & Analysis Soni McGraw Hill 25 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS