Robert L.Norton著的《Design of machinery:all introduction to the synthesis and analysis ofmechanisms andmachines》是美国比较广泛应用的机械原理教材。该书在2004年出版了第三版。在我国已经出版了该书第二版的影印本和翻译本。现把该书第三版改编为内容适合我国机械原理教学基本要求的简本,供我国机械原理双语教学使用,也可作为机械原理教学的辅助教材,还可供机械工程方面的专业人员参考。该书内容丰富,大部分内容适合我国机械类本科生的教学要求。原书858页,共包括16章的内容、参考文献和习题、6个附录、1个索引和1个光盘目录。其中第1章至第9章为第一部分(PART I),称为机构运动学;第10章至第16章为第二部分(PARTⅡ),称为机械动力学。
【目录】
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition.
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.0 Purpose
1.1 Kinematics and Kinetics
1.2 Mechanisms and Machines
1.3 A Brief History of Kinematics
1.4 Applications of Kinematics
1.5 The Design Process
Design, Invention, Creativity
Identification of Need
Background Research
Goal Statement
Performance Specifications.
Ideation and Invention
Analysis
Selection
Detailed Design
Protolyplng and Testing
Production
1.6 Other Approaches to Design
Axiomatic Design
1.7 Multiple Solutions
1.8 Human Factors Engineering.
1.9 The Engineering Report
1.10 Units
1.11 What's to Come
Chapter 2 Kinematics Fundamentals
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) or Mobility
2.2 Types of Motion
2.3 Links, Joints, and Kinematic Chains
2.4 Determining Degree of Freedom or Mobility
Degree of Freedom (Mobility) in Planar Meohanlsms
Degree of Freedom (Mobility) In Spatial Mechanisms
2.5 Mechanisms and Structures
2.6 Paradoxes
2.7 Linkage Transformation
2.8 Intermittent Motion
2.9 Inversion
2.10 The Grashof Condition
2.11 Compliant Mechanisms
2.12 Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems [MEMS]
2.13 Practical Considerations
Pin Joints versus Sliders and Half Joints
Cantilever or Straddle Mount?
Short Links
Beating Ratio
Commercial Slides
Linkages versus Cams
Chapter 3 Graphical Llnkage Synthesis
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Synthesis
3.2 Function, Path, and Motion Generation
3.3 Limiting Conditions
3.4 Dimensional Synthesis
Two-Position Synthesis
Three-Position Synthesis with Specified Moving Pilots
Three-Position Synthesis with Aiternote Moving Pilots
Three-Position Synthesis with Specified Fixed Pilots
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