Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms

Abstract

A study of the coupler curves of four-bar and Watt mechanisms is undertaken either theoretically or based on a computer program that is integrated in a CAD-System. This leads even in the case of four-far linkages to some new insights concerning the existence of nodes and cusps. The possible real singularities of non-degenerate coupler curves of the Watt mechanism are determined and by means of our computer program, we demonstrate their difficult structure.

First Page

1161

Last Page

1164

Publication Date

1991

Department

Mathematics and Statistics

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Mathematics Commons

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