This introduction to modern mechanism design focuses on theoretical foundations and on computer implementation and computer-aided design. This edition presents a building block approach to mechanism design; provides examples of mechanism tasks; explores the mechanism design process; revises the section on planetary gear trains; and streamlines the introduction to analytical synthesis - adding a design example and down-playing the complex-number method. It also includes a CD-ROM with animations of real and computer-generated mechanisms, as well as many more chapter-end problems drawn from industry, patents and other practical situations.
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This thorough and comprehensive introduction to modern mechanism design focuses on theoretical foundations and on computer implementation and computer-aided design.
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This thorough and comprehensive introduction to modern mechanism design focuses on theoretical foundations and on computer implementation and computer-aided design. Exploring all material both graphically and analytically, this book covers kinematics, mechanisms, and dynamics. Graphically-based methods are grouped together followed by analytical and computer-based solutions. This edition includes a CD-ROM with animations of real and computer-generated mechanisms.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very bad,
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This review is from: Mechanism Design: Analysis and Synthesis (4th Edition) (Paperback)
I'm a junior mechanical engineering student at a university. This is the text used for my kinematics and dynamics of machinery class. This book is very poorly written, and it's not user friendly. It is hard to follow the examples in this book. If someone already has knowledge on mechanism design, then this book may be used as a good reference. But for those just learning, this book is horrible.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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I would look elsewhere,
This review is from: Mechanism Design: Analysis and Synthesis (4th Edition) (Paperback)
This book was a new choice from our professor who was teaching our mechanism design class. In my opinion, the three authors who wrote it each took a section and slapped their parts together. Totally different writing style as you go throught the book. In addition t is a small book and you constanlty are turning pages to makes references to figures which makes it hard to read with good flw. n addition a lot of the diagrams are unclear and dont necessarily say what they represent. Our professor ended up hating the book himself. A good reference maybe but not for the beginner.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Dense and user-unfriendly,
By Sara "engineer girl" (Saint Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mechanism Design: Analysis and Synthesis (4th Edition) (Paperback)
The authors obviously know a great deal about mechanism design, but they've done a terrible job of conveying that knowledge in a clear fashion. The illustrations are unclear and the photos are even worse. The text reads like a rambling lecture rather than an organized, logical piece of writing.
If I could use one word to describe this text, it would be "dense". This book might be useful as a reference, but is terrible for someone seeing the material for the first time.
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