İZMİR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ME331 THEORY OF MACHINES I
FALL 2020-2021
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökhan Kiper (gokhankiper@iyte.edu.tr)
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Mr. Fırat Kara (firatkara@iyte.edu.tr), Mr. Murat Demirel (muratdemirel@iyte.edu.tr)
COURSE SCHEDULE
Tuesday 13:30 – 14:15 / Thursday 13:30 – 15:15
COURSE WEB SITES
Microsoft Teams  ME331 Team / İYTE LMS: https://lms.iyte.edu.tr  ME331F2020
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES
MATH141 Basic Calculus I, MATH142 Calculus II, PHYS121 General Physics I, ME222 Dynamics,
ME242 Applied Mathematics for Engineers (You cannot take ME331 if you have not ever taken ME222)
COURSE CONTENT
Detailed course content is presented in the second page.
TEXTBOOK
E. Söylemez, Mechanisms, METU Press, 5th Edition, 2018.
Online version: https://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=132
REFERENCES
J. J. Uicker, G. R. Pennock, J. E. Shigley, Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Oxford University Press, 4th
Edition, 2010.
A. G. Erdman, G. N. Sandor, Mechanism Design: Analysis and Synthesis Volume I, Prentice-Hall, 4th Edition,
2001.
R. L. Norton, Design of Machinery: An Introduction to the Synthesis and Analysis of Mechanisms and
Machines, McGraw-Hill, 5th Edition, 2011.
Many other machine theory books are available with call numbers starting TJ175 in the library.
COMPUTER SESSIONS
Three computer sessions (see the detailed schedule on 2nd page). Attendance to these sessions is compulsory.
INTERACTIVE CONTENT, QUIZZES and FINAL EXAMINATION
You will need to answer some short questions during or after watching the lecture videos. Best 8 out of 11 such
interactive content or short homework will be used for grading. Weekly quizzes will be applied throughout the
semester (mostly on Tuesdays). There are 12 quizzes (5 of them about computer sessions) and 10 best quizzes
out of 12 will be used for grading. There will be a Final Examination at the end of the semester. Make-up
quizzes/examination are offered for the students who have a valid excuse approved by the department.
TENTATIVE GRADING
Interactive Content or Short Homeworks (%10 – counts as attendance) + Quizzes (%60) + Final Exam (%30)
ACADEMIC ETHICS
According to Personal Data Protection Law, sharing any kinds of lecture materials (lecture videos, handouts,
homework/quiz/exam questions, etc.) with third parties, use them on the web, or publish them through any
social network without written approval of our institution is strictly forbidden even after your graduation
(https://uzem.iyte.edu.tr/en/duyuru/distance-learning-and-the-personal-data-protection-law).
All written submissions (homework assignments, exams, etc.) must reflect purely independent and individual
efforts. All reference material (books, scientific papers, web sites, etc.) in these submissions should be properly
cited. Academic dishonesty, including any form of cheating will not be tolerated and may result in failure of the
course and/or formal disciplinary proceedings that may lead to suspension. Cheating includes but is not limited
to such acts as offering or receiving unpermitted assistance in the exams, using any type of unauthorized written
material during the exams, handing in any part or all of someone else’s work as your own, copying from an
internet source. Plagiarism is a specific form of cheating. It means using someone else’s work without giving
credit and it is a form of literary theft.
 DETAILED COURSE CONTENT
Color code: Theoretical lectures / Q&A (25 hrs) Computer Sessions (6 hrs) Quizes

Abbreviations - IC: Interactive Content; SHW: Short Homework;

Comp ses: Computer session (files created by you in the computer sessions will be collected and evaluated)
Section in Section in Supplementary
Lecture Date Tentative Content Evaluation
printed book online book material
1 Oct 13 Introduction - - -
2
Oct 15 Basic concepts and definitions 1.1-1.3 1.1-1.3 IC/SHW1
3
4 Oct 20 Classification of mechanisms 1.10 2.7 Quiz 1
5
Oct 22 Degree of freedom (dof) of mechanisms 1.4 2.1 IC/SHW2 Exercise pdf
6
7 Oct 27 Constrained/Unconstrained mechanisms 1.5 2.2 Quiz 2
8 Nov 3 Kinematic Inversion 1.6 2.3 IC/SHW3
9
Nov 5 Grübler's Equation, Enumeration of Mechanisms 1.7-1.8 2.4-2.5 IC/SHW4 Exercise pdf
10
11 Nov 10 - - - Quiz 3
12 Introduction to kinematic analysis of mechanisms;
Nov 12 IC/SHW5
13 Kinematics of a particle and a rigid body; Coincident 2.1.1-2.1.4 3.0-3.4 Exercise pdf
14 Nov 17 points; Vector loop concept Quiz 4
15 Computer session: Graphical solution for
Nov 19 2.1.5 3.5 Comp ses 1 Youtube
16 mechanisms; Introduction to Geogebra
17 Nov 24 Geogebra application for position analysis - - Quiz 5
18 Computer session: Introduction to Excel; stepwise 2.1.8 3.8 Youtube
Nov 26 Comp ses 2
19 solution for the 4-bar mechanism 2.1.6 3.6 Exercise pdf
20 Dec 1 Excel application for position analysis - - Quiz 6
21 Computer session: 4-bar solution with Excel - Using
Dec 3 Appendix II Appendix II Comp ses 3
22 macros
23 Dec 8 Excel application for position analysis - - Quiz 7
24 Analytical solution of loop closure equations (LCEs)
Dec 10 2.1.6 (2.1.9) 3.6 (3.9) IC/SHW6 Exercise pdf
25 (Optional: Iterative solution of LCEs)
26 Dec 15 - - - Quiz 8
27 Grasshof's theorem for the 4-bar mechanism 4.1, 4.1.1
Dec 17 7.1 IC/SHW7
28 Dead center positions and transmission angle 4.1.2-4.1.3 Exercise pdf
29 Dec 22 - - - Quiz 9
30 Velocity and acceleration analysis 2.2 4.1
Dec 24 IC/SHW8
31 Velocity/acceleration analysis of mechanisms 2.3 4.2
32 Dec 29 Geogebra application for velocity analysis - - Quiz 10
33
Dec 31 Excel application for velocity/acceleration analysis - - Quiz 11
34
35 Jan 5 Linear mechanical systems; Simple gear trains 3.1 5.1 IC/SHW9
36
Jan 7 Planetary gear trains 3.2 5.2 IC/SHW10 Exercise pdf
37
38 Jan 12 Forces and couples; Forces in machinery 5.1 6.1 Quiz 12
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Jan 14 Static force analysis of mechanisms 5.2 6.2 IC/SHW11 Exercise pdf
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