Synthesis of Planar Multi-loop Linkages Starting from Existing Parts or Mechanisms: Enumeration and Initial Sizing

MARTÍN A. PUCHETA; ALBERTO CARDONA

MECHANICS BASED DESIGN OF STRUCTURES AND MACHINES

Taylor & Francis

Año: 2008 vol. 36 p. 364 - 391

1539-7734

In this paper we present a methodology for dealing with mechanism synthesis problems in which there are initial existing parts connected arbitrarily. We use a Finite Element Method-like description of the initial kinematics problem, a graph representation to solve the number synthesis, and the Precision-Point Method to solve the initial dimensions of the linkages. A preliminary analysis of the structural parts in conjunction with the imposed motion constraints is considered just after the initial description to distinguish those analyzable parts from the unknowns of the synthesis problem. A non standard example for function generation is illustrated throughout the paper.