MECH 3500

The course focuses on design of mechanism, their motion, static and dynamic loads, and power transmission. It includes planar and spatial 4-bar and 6-bar linkages, cam mechanisms, gear trains, rotor systems, and manipulators. Linkage inversion, transformation, and synthesis are used for design of new mechanisms. Graphic, analytical, computer, and physical modeling techniques are used. Many real life mechanisms are analyzed.