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2002 results in Engineering design, kinematics, and robotics

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Noncircular Gears
  • Design and Generation
  • Faydor L. Litvin, Alfonso Fuentes-Aznar, Ignacio Gonzalez-Perez, Kenichi Hayasaka
  • Published online:
    29 October 2009
    Print publication:
    14 September 2009
  • Noncircular Gears: Design and Generation represents the extension of the modern theory of gearing applied to the design and manufacture of the main types of noncircular gears: conventional and modified elliptical gears, eccentric gears, oval gears, gears with lobes, and twisted gears. This book is enhanced by updated theoretical description of the methods of generation of noncircular gears by enveloping methods similar to those applied to the generation of circular gears. Noncircular Gears: Design and Generation also offers new developments directed to extend the application of noncircular gears for output speed variation and generation of functions. Numerous numerical examples show the application of the developed theory. This book aims to extend the application of noncircular gear drives in mechanisms and industry.

Physical Analysis for Tribology
  • Terence F. J. Quinn
  • Published online:
    29 October 2009
    Print publication:
    22 February 1991
  • Physical Analysis for Tribology presents a unified approach to the study of wear in mechanical systems. Written by a leading expert who has studied and taught the subject both in Britain and the USA, this book will be valuable to researchers and students with a wide range of experience in tribology. The book concentrates on the methods of physical analysis and the applications of these techniques. This is then illustrated by a discussion of specific tribosystems. The early chapters provide an introduction to physical analysis that is thorough and rigorous. This prepares the reader with all the knowledge necessary to understand the subsequent discussion of applications. Although the description of systems is not exhaustive, the treatment and the theory are universal and will therefore be relevant to individual case studies. The book will appeal to tribologists from a wide variety of disciplines and will be of interest to researchers in physics, chemistry, metallurgy and mechanical engineering.

Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime
  • A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • Joseph H. Saleh
  • Published online:
    25 October 2009
    Print publication:
    10 December 2007
  • An issue in engineering design is a system's design lifetime. Economists study durability choice problems for consumer goods but seldom address lifetime problem(s) of complex engineering systems. The issues for engineering systems are complex and multidisciplinary and require an understanding of the 'technicalities of durability' and the economic implications of the marginal cost of durability and value maximization. Commonly the design lifetime for an infrastructure is set between 30 and 70 years. Satellite lifetimes are also assigned arbitrarily or with limited analysis. This book provides a systemic qualitative and quantitative approach to these problems addressing, first, the technicality of durability, second, the marginal cost of durability, and third, the durability choice problem for complex engineering systems with network externalities (competition and market uncertainty) and obsolescence effects (technology evolution). Since the analyses are system-specific, a satellite example is used to illustrate the essence and provide a quantitative application of said analyses.

Formal Engineering Design Synthesis
  • Edited by Erik K. Antonsson, Jonathan Cagan
  • Published online:
    10 October 2009
    Print publication:
    19 November 2001
  • The development of a new design is often thought of as a fundamentally human, creative act. However, emerging research has demonstrated that aspects of design synthesis can be formalized. First steps in this direction were taken in the early 1960s when systematic techniques were introduced to guide engineers in producing high-quality designs. By the mid-1980s these methods had evolved from their informal (guideline-like) origins to more formal (computable) methods. In recent years, highly automated design synthesis techniques have emerged. This intriguing book reviews formal design synthesis methods. It also provides an in-depth exploration of several representative projects in formal design synthesis and examines future directions in computational design synthesis research. Written by internationally renowned experts in engineering and architectural design, it covers essential topics in engineering design, and will appeal to designers, researchers and engineering graduate students.

Rotodynamic Pump Design
  • R. K. Turton
  • Published online:
    29 September 2009
    Print publication:
    13 January 1994
  • This book provides a brief but thorough account of the basic principles of good pump design. The first three chapters present the basic hydraulic equations, including cavitation, and discuss the principles that underlie the correct performance of the impeller and casing of centrifugal pumps and the blading of axial machines. The fourth chapter outlines analytical methods for flow calculations, including special techniques used in computer aided design. The following two chapters work through two examples: the impeller and casing of a simple volute type centrifugal pump; and an axial flow pump impeller. Shafts, bearings, seals and drives are discussed in a separate chapter. The last two chapters deal with design for difficult fluids, and codes and practices.

  • Preface

  • Faydor L. Litvin, University of Illinois, Chicago, Alfonso Fuentes-Aznar, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, Ignacio Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, Kenichi Hayasaka
  • Book:
    Noncircular Gears
    Published online:
    29 October 2009
    Print publication:
    14 September 2009, pp xiii-xiv

  • Summary

    The book is written by a group of authors united by application of the same methodology and experience of cooperation for a long time. The contents of the book cover:

    1. Methods of generation of noncircular gears by enveloping methods that are similar to those applied for generation of circular gears. However, the motions of the generating tools (rack cutter, shaper, or hob) are nonlinear and must be computerized.

    2. Design of noncircular gears to be applied for variation of output speed and generation of functions. Such a design requires determination of mating centrodes that roll over each other.

    3. Detailed procedure of design of elliptical gears with spur and helical teeth, oval gears, lobes, eccentric involute gears, and twisted gears (applied for extension of the interval of function generation).

    4. Tandem design of planar linkages coupled with noncircular gears for a broader variation range of the output speed.

    The authors hope that this book will allow extension of application and design of noncircular gear drives in mechanisms and industry.

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