Abstract
An iterative procedure has been developed where the rotational displacements of a spatial mechanism are determined by a geometric method. The technique mimics the way a person would determine the rotations by making a trial assembly of the links of the mechanism and then adjusting the displacements so that links close up to form a loop. The procedure has been found to be practical and can be applied to complicated spatial mechanisms for which the mathematics are overly involved, and is particularly useful for situations when a good initial guess adequate for a successful Newton-Raphson solution is unavailable.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 209-218 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics |
| Volume | 214 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2000 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
- Displacements
- Dual-number methods
- Kinematics
- Rotations
- Spatial mechanisms