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MECHANICS OF MACHINES (A)

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Academic year
2022/2023
Teacher
RAFFAELE DI GREGORIO
Credits
6
Didactic period
Secondo Semestre
SSD
ING-IND/13

Training objectives

The course aims at providing the basic tools for the analysis and synthesis of planar mechanisms and to present in a systematic way the main issues involved in the functional study of machines.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Mathematics, Geometry, Physics and Rational Mechanics.

Course programme

The course includes 60 hours of teaching (lectures and exercises). The topics of the course are as follows:

PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS (3 hours): Machines and mechanisms. Kinematic pairs. Degrees of freedom.
KINEMATICS REVIEW (5 hours): Rigid body’s kinematics. Instantaneous center of rotation. Polodes. Acceleration. Relative motions.
MECHANISM KINEMATICS (15 hours): Concept of loop and mechanism classification (parallel, serial and hybrid). Kinematic analysis. Four-bar linkage. Slider-crank linkage.
FORCES APPLIED TO THE MACHINES AND MACHINE KINETOSTATICS (15 hours): Classification of force systems. Efficiency of machines. Reaction forces in ideal and real kinematic pairs. Free-body diagrams. Kinetostatic analysis (without and with friction).Vehicle kinetostatics.
TRIBOLOGY (5 hours): Dry Friction. Rolling friction. Wear, distribution of contact pressures (Clutches, Brakes).
CAM MECHANISMS (5 hours): Law of motion. Determination of the cam profile. Equivalent linkage. Kinematic analysis. Pressure angle. Undercutting. Elementary laws of motion.
LINKAGE SYNTHESIS (12 hours): Synthesis problems (number synthesis, type synthesis, path generation, body guidance, function generation). Analytic methods for the synthesis of planar linkages. Planar four-bar linkage (4bl) and its applications: transformation of a continuous rotatory motion into an oscillating rotatory motion; static analysis; the parallelogram linkage. 4bl synthesis with graphical methods. Roberts’ theorem. Use of the polodes: path generation, Euler-Savary equation, inflection circle and its applications (harbor crane). Use of the four-bar coupler curve atlas in the linkage synthesis: examples.

THE DETAILED PROGRAM CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE SECTION “DISPENSE” OF THE COURSE WEBSITE.

Didactic methods

During the course, the subjects are addressed both from a theoretical and from a practical point of view. In particular, for each topic, a number of exercises, whose solution is partly shown in class and partly left to the student as a tool for self-training, are proposed.

Learning assessment procedures

The examination of module A is an oral delivered in written form in which
- the ability to solve problems of kinematic and kinetostatic analysis of plane mechanisms is verified/evaluated by asking to solve one of these problems,
- the organic knowledge of the topics covered in class is verified/evaluated asking to answer two questions on the topics reported in the program.
To pass the exam one needs to get a sufficient assessment both in the resolution of the problem of kinematic/kinetostatic analysis and in the two questions of theory.

The final score of the integrated course (A+B) is the arithmetic average of the scores obtained in the examinations of the two modules.

Reference texts

About all the topics addressed during the lectures are reported in the textbook:

[1] Funaioli, E., Maggiore, A. e Meneghetti, U., "Lezioni di MECCANICA APPLICATA ALLE MACCHINE – prima parte: fondamenti di meccanica delle macchine ", Ed. Patron, Bologna, 2005.

or in the alternative textbook

[2] Uicker,J.J., Pennock, G.R., Shigley,J.E., "Theory of Machines and Mechanisms", third edition 2003, Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), ISBN:0-19-515598-X

For the topics not reprted in [1] (or [2]), lecture notes freely downloadable from the section "Dispense" of the course website are available.


In the library, the following textbooks are also available:

[3] N. P. Belfiore, A. Di Benedetto, E. Pennestrì, "Fondamenti di Meccanica Applicata alle macchine", Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 1a Ed. 2005 oppure 2a Ed. 2011;

[4] A. Zanarini, “Analisi cinetostatica grafica di meccanismi piani – applicazioni per la meccanica delle macchine”, Società Editrice Esculapio, 2012;

[5] Doughty, S., "Mechanics of Machines", John-Wiley & Sons, 1988;

[6] Paul, B., "Kinematics and dynamics of planar machinery", Prentice-Hall, 1979

[7] Waldrom K.J., Kinzel G.L., “Kinematics, Dynamics, and Design of Machinery”, John-Wiley & Sons, 1999

[8] Mabie H., Reinholtz C., “Mechanisms and dynamics of machinery,” John-Wiley & Sons, 1987.

Also, from the website (http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/k/kmoddl/) of the Cornell University, a number of freely downloadable textbooks are available, among which the following:

[9] Hartenberg R.S., Denavit J, “Kinematic Synthesis of Linkages,” Mc.Graw-Hill, Inc., 1964

[10] Bickford J.H, “Mechanisms for Intermittent Motion,” Industrial Press, Inc, 1972

Eventually,it is worth stressing that, for the background concepts of rational mechanics,

- from Prof. Alberto Strumia's website (http://www.albertostrumia.it/libri/didattica.html), the following textbook is freely downloadable:

[11] A. Strumia, “Meccanica Razionale”, Casa Editrice Nautilus, 2a Ed. 1996;