Course Name	Kinematics of Mechanisms
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Iljoong Youn
	Department/School	Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

This course deals with the motion of mechanical elements, such as links, gears, cams, and so on, and machineries. The purpose of this course is to let the students obtain the basic concepts to design the machine and increase the applicable capability. Throughout the semester, the students learn how to design the machinery to accomplish the required objectives and how to analyze the given mechanisms. The synthesis part includes three methods which are rigid body guidance, motion generation and function generation to develop the mechanisms. The analysis part covers position, velocity and acceleration analysis of machinery. Through the team project, students will experience the whole design process of the machine with their own ideas and improve their cooperative spirit.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Text book: Erdman, Sandor, and Kota, "Mechanism Design", Prentice Hall

Reference: Norton, "Design of Machinery", McGraw Hill

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Tasks- After each chapter, one homework assignment will be given.

For the design project of a mechanism, each team consists of 3-5 students.

The members of each team cooperate to synthesize a mechanism to accomplish their own objective and to analyze the mechanism.

Grading Scheme- Attendance(10%), Mid-term Exam(30%), Final Exam(30%), Assignments( 30%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction to the study of mechanisms

Week 2: Mechanism and machine, Kinematic elements, Degree of Freedom

Week 3: Kinematic inversion, Transmission of motion, Mechanisms and linkages

Week 4: Synthesis of mechanisms, Design procedure

Week 5: Rigid body guidance, Function generation, Motion generation

Week 6: Graphical analysis of position

Week 7: Vector loop closure equation in position analysis

Week 8: Complex number method in position analysis

Week 9: Graphical analysis of velocity

Week 10: Analytical and numerical analysis of velocity

Week 11: Acceleration analysis

Week 12: Static forces: applied and constraint forces, condition for equilibrium, FBD

Week 13: Dynamic forces: inertia forces, equation of motion

Week 14: Balancing: shaking forces, balancing of rotating systems

Week 15: Review, catching up

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel : 82-55-751-5317e-mail : iyoun@gnu.ac.kr