JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

ADVANCED KINEMATICS OF PLANE MOTION- I: Introduction to plane motion. The Inflection circle, Euler – Savary Equation, Analytical and graphical determination of di , Bobillier’s Construction , Collineation axis , Hartmann’s Construction ,Inflection circle for the relative motion of two moving planes, Application of the Inflection circle to kinematic analysis.

UNIT - II

ADVANCED KINEMATICS OF PLANE MOTION - II: Polode curvature, Hall’s Equation, Polode curvature in the four bar mechanism, coupler motion, relative motion of the output and input links, Determination of the output angular acceleration and its Rate of change, Freudenstein’s collineation –axis theorem, Carter –Hall circle, The circling – point curve for the Coupler of a four bar mechanism.

UNIT - III

INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIS-GRAPHICAL METHODS - I: The Four bar linkage ,Guiding a body through Two distinct positions, Guiding a body through Three distinct positions, The Roto center triangle , Guiding a body through Four distinct positions, Burmester’s curve.

UNIT - IV

INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIS-GRAPHICAL METHODS - II: Function generation- General discussion, Function generation: Relative – Roto center method, Overlay’s method, Function generation- Velocity – pole method, Path generation: Hrones’s and Nelson’s motion Atlas, Roberts’s theorem.

UNIT - V

INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIS - ANALYTICAL METHODS: Function Generation: Freudenstien’s equation, Precision point approximation, Precision – derivative approximation, Path Generation: Synthesis of Four-bar Mechanisms for specified instantaneous condition, Method of components, Synthesis of Four-bar Mechanisms for prescribed extreme values of the angular velocity of driven link, Method of components.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Kinematics and Dynamics of plane mechanisms/ Jeremy Hirschhorn/McGraw-Hill, 1962.
• 2. Theory of Machines and Mechanisms/ J. E Shigley and J.J . Uicker Jr./ McGraw-Hill, 1995
• 3. Design of machinery / Robert L Norton third edition/ McGraw-Hill 2004
• 4. Theory of Mechanisms and Machines/ Amitabh Ghosh and Ashok Kumar Mallik/ E. W. P. Publishers.
• 5. Kinematic Linkage Design/ Allen S.Hall Jr./ PHI,1964. rd
• 6. Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery/Charles E Wilson/Pearson/3 Edition M. Tech I Year – II Sem. (Machine Design)