Abstract: The concept of rolling-contact has been applied to reduce friction at highly loaded rocker-pivots without the use of rolling element bearings. Various configurations for a rolling motion at the ...

Abstract: The magnitudes of the impacts in chain drives are a function of the sprocket speed, chain link pitch, the number of links in the chain span, and the mass distribution within each link. The ...

Abstract: Kinematic structural synthesis has been relatively successful when applied to the conceptual design of mechanisms. The approach presented in this paper, however, views the design process from an ...

Abstract: A special type of truss structures, called truss modules, is presented. Graphs of this class of structures form a subset of the graphs that are generated using the approach presented in Part ...

Abstract: A direct procedure, based on the generalized Lagrange multiplier method, will be presented for designing high-speed cam-follower systems over a range of cam speeds. With this method residual ...

Abstract: The synthesis of the parameters governing the dynamic response of high-speed cam-follower systems ideally involves an integrated approach capable of carrying out the tradeoffs necessary to achieve ...

Abstract: This part is concerned with the determination of optimum values of the design parameters of cam-follower systems according to the criterion developed in Part 1. The nonlinearities associated ...

Abstract: This paper presents a knowledge-based systems approach to the automation of the conceptual synthesis of mechanisms. The system utilizes a procedure for synthesizing design alternatives based on ...