Mechanism Design by Lung-Wen Tsai
Traditionally, mechanisms are created by designer's intuition, ingenuity, and experience. However, such an ad hoc approach cannot ensure the identification of all possible design alternatives, nor does it necessarily lead to optimum design. Mechanism Design: Enumeration of Kinematic Structures According to Function introduces a methodology for systematic creation and classification of mechanisms. 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, evaluating them with respect to the remaining functional requirements, and provides numerous atlases of mechanisms that can be used as a source of ideas for mechanism and machine design. He bases the book on the idea that some of the functional requirements of a desired mechanism can be transformed into structural characteristics that can be used for the enumeration of mechanisms. The most difficult problem most mechanical designers face at the conceptual design phase is the creation of design alternatives. Mechanism Design: Enumeration of Kinematic Structures According to Function presents you with a methodology that is not available in any other resource."…The topics covered in the book have wide applications in modern engineering technology"
-Frank Kreith
Editor of the CRC Mechanical Engineering Series
topics covered in the book have wide applications in modern engineering technology."
-Frank Kreith
Editor of the CRC Mechanical Engineering Series
LUNG-WEN TSAI, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1973 and has had an extensive career in engineering, education, and industry. He is a fellow of the ASME. An internationally recognized expert in automotive engineering, mechanisms and machine theory, and robot manipulators, he is well published in leading robotics journals, including numerous articles in the Journal of Robotics Systems (Wiley), the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.
| SKU | NIN9780849309014 |
| ISBN 13 | 9780849309014 |
| ISBN 10 | 0849309018 |
| Title | Mechanism Design |
| Author | Lung-Wen Tsai |
| Series | Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering Series |
| Condition | New |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2000-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
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