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Price: $148.50

Format:
Hardback 528 pp.
630 halftones & line illus., 239 mm x 193 mm

ISBN-10:
0195154525

ISBN-13:
9780195154528

Copyright Year:
2005

Imprint: OUP US

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Mechanics of Machines

W. L. Cleghorn

Mechanics of Machines is designed for undergraduate courses in kinematics and dynamics of machines. It covers the basic concepts of gears, gear trains, the mechanics of rigid bodies, and graphical and analytical kinematic analyses of planar mechanisms. In addition, the text describes a procedure for designing disc cam mechanisms, discusses graphical and analytical force analyses and balancing of planar mechanisms, and illustrates common methods for the synthesis of mechanisms. Each chapter concludes with a selection of problems of varying length and difficulty. SI Units and US Customary Units are employed. An appendix presents twenty-six design projects based on practical, real-world engineering situations. These may be ideally solved using Working Model software.

A CD-ROM, included in every copy of this book, contains virtual moving models of a wide range of machines, including engines, meshing gears, cam mechanisms, intermittent motion mechanisms, pumps, shaft couplings, locks, braking systems, threaded connections, and a synchronizer. Most of these models are three-dimensional and allow the user to highlight a component or process of interest as well as alter both the point-of-view and zoom during the simulated motion. In addition, icons in the book's margins enable the reader to readily identify the corresponding files on the CD-ROM.

Readership : Upper-level undergraduate courses in kinematics & dynamics of machinery and machine design

1. Introduction
2. Mechanics of Rigid Bodies
3. Graphical Kinematic Analysis of Planar Mechanisms
4. Analytical Kinematic Analysis of Planar Mechanisms
5. Gears
6. Gear Trains
7. Cams
8. Graphical Force Analysis of Planar Mechanism
9. Analytical Force Analysis and Balancing of Planar Mechanisms
10. Flywheels
11. Synthesis of Mechanisms
Appendix A: Design Projects Using Working Model 2D
Appendix B: Commonly Employed Mechanisms and Machines
Appendix C: Scalars and Vectors
Appendix D: Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics
Appendix E: Index of CD-Rom
Answers to Selected Problems
References
Trigonometric Identities
Index

Solutions Manual
CD-ROM with PowerPoint overheads

W. L. Cleghorn is Professor and Clarice Chalmers Chair of Engineering Design at the University of Toronto. He has taught subjects in mechanics and design for over twenty years, and holds numerous teaching awards.

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Special Features

  • CD-ROM Highlights
  • Offers more than 140 files of interactive virtual models and video clips of a diverse assortment of machines and mechanisms Contains Working Model®, Textbook Edition, the world's most popular 2D motion software
  • Includes flux Player VRML software to view virtual models
  • Includes the Windows-based computer program, Cam Design, that allow one to design, animate, and evaluate disc cam mechanisms
  • Provides files of scaled diagrams of mechanisms, for solving problems using graphical analyses involving velocity, acceleration, and force