ME342 Mechanism Design

by Prof. Seungbum Koo

Week02-B. Mechanism Design
Undergraduate Student Project
 Investigation of potential skin burn damage due to
frictional property of suture material
 To measure the friction between surgical thread and skin
 To measure the temperature of the skin when a surgical thread
passes through the skin

Does it really happen?

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 Concept design
Capstan method to measure
friction of a thread

Weight
Control

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 Concept design
Moving out of the slide )

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 Detailed design

200 200
70
Thermocouple
∅ 54
30
20 ∅ 42
20
15 Thermocouple
15
10

10
7

(max) 75
200

200
10
5
7
46.3 48 ∅ 62

10 ∅ 42 10 19
20

Load
70 42
Cell
중량
45
받침대

70

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Friction Temperature
measurement device measurement device

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2.2 THE SEVEN STAGES OF COMPUTER-
AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN
How can the design process be taught?

by Leonardo Da Vinci

by Leonardo Da Vinci by Yak-yong Jeong

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AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN
How can the design process be taught?
 What is design?
 Can creativity be taught?
 How do we begin the design process?
 Where does kinematic analysis and synthesis fit into
engineering design?
 Where does the computer fit into the design process?
 Can a design methodology or philosophy be formulated,
practiced, and taught to student engineers?

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2.2 THE SEVEN STAGES OF COMPUTER-
AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN

Stages 1 & 2: Evolution of the

design task and the development of
the available, applicable engineering
background

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AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN

Stage 3: Merging of the

two upper branches:
Generation of design
concepts Skeleton design

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AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN

Stages 4 to 7: Guideline
toward the completion of the
design, based on the selected
concept Iterations!
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2.2 THE SEVEN STAGES OF COMPUTER-
AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN
Stages 1 & 2: Evolution of the design task and the
development of the available, applicable
engineering background

Stage 3: Merging of the two upper branches:

Generation of design concepts

Stages 4 to 7: Guideline toward the completion

of the design, based on the selected concept

Figure 2.1

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2.4 A NEED FOR MECHANISMS
 Understanding how a particular mechanism works is fairly
easy, but comprehending how it originated and why it
was designed in the particular form in which it
exists is more difficult – Art and Science!

A clock tower in Bern, Switzerland

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2.4 A NEED FOR MECHANISMS
 The key is to design an appropriate mechanism: one
that not only is cost-effective and fits within the available
space, but also is reliable and insensitive to manufacturing
variations and wear, has good mechanical advantage, etc.
 Type synthesis: choosing an appropriate type of mechanism
or linkage
 Dimensional synthesis: determining an appropriate or
optimum set of dimensions for the various parts that comprise
the chosen mechanism type

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Part of
Table 2.1
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 Classification of mechanisms by tasks
 Function generation; coordinated motion between input
and the output, where both input and output move (rotate or
translate) with respect to a fixed axis
 Lawn sprinkler mechanism
 Path generation; converting a simple rotary input motion
into generating a desired path, a point of a floating link is to
trace a part defined with respect to a fixed frame of reference
 Welding tool, cutting tool
 Motion generation; rigid-body guidance, entire body is
guided through a prescribed motion sequence
 Automobile top panel, aircraft wheel

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 Classification of mechanisms by tasks mp4

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Path generation

mp4

Function generation

Motion
generation

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 Classification of mechanisms by tasks wmv

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Path generation

wmv

Function generation

Motion
generation

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 Basic building blocks to make mechanisms

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 Basic building blocks (Cont.)

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 Basic building blocks (Cont.)

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 Basic building blocks (Cont.)

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 Basic building blocks (Cont.)

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 Basic building blocks (Cont.)

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Variable types of CAM
mp4

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Variable types of CAM
wmv

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2.4 A NEED FOR MECHANISMS
 A complex sewing machine constructed from a small
number of constructive elements.

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 2.5 DESIGN CATEGORIES AND
MECHANISM PARAMETERS
Figure 2.3 Parameters in a mechanism

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2.5 DESIGN CATEGORIES AND
MECHANISM PARAMETERS
Table 2.3 Design parameters to be determined in kinematic and dynamic
design categories

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2.6 TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE: SYMPTOMS,
CAUSES, AND SOURCES OF ASSISTANCE

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2.6 TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE: SYMPTOMS,
CAUSES, AND SOURCES OF ASSISTANCE

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2.7 HISTORY of COMPUTER-AIDED
MECHANISM DESIGN

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MSC ADAMS
 Student version is available

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ME342 Announcement
 Next class
 Read textbook chapters

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