Intro to Racecar Engineering: 15 Electronic Fuel Injection Systems
Smitty shares information regarding electronic fuel injection systems.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 14 CV Transmissions
Smitty describes continuously variable transmissions. This is the fourteenth video in a series developed for UCI’s racecar engineering program.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 13 Tires
Smitty shares tips of the trade regarding tires.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 12 Toe and Camber
Smitty describes the importance of the toe and camber.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 11 King Pin Inclination
Smitty describes king pin inclination. This is the eleventh in the video series developed for UCI’s racecar engineering program. (Smitty and the Professor series)
Superluminal Chapter 5
David finds Qishu to be more than he expected in Chapter 5 of R. W. Frost’s Superluminal.
Rectilinear Six-Bar (Candy Coating Linkage)
Jeff Glabe designed this six-bar linkage to move through six task positions while maintaining a parallel orientation. This required the calculation of 55,000 linkages to find 26 that work. This one has the additional feature that it is operated by a rotating crank (the red link). The video is a collaboration of Jeff Glabe and Benjamin Liu.
Introduction to Linkage Synthesis
This introduction to the graduate course ME 322 Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms shows the potential for design innovation using a mathematical formulation to compute the dimensions of a device from its required task, literally the calculation of its form from the desired function.
More notes on Kinematic Synthesis Also see my book Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms: a project based approach
Curvature Theory for Planar Point Trajectories
These notes for the Stanford University graduate course ME 322 Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms present the curvature properties of point trajectories in a planar moving body such as the coupler link of a four-bar linkage.
Update: December 13, 2017. These notes have been revised to use the notation for the components of the pole acceleration and rate of change of acceleration to match Bottema and Roth’s Theoretical Kinematics.
Four-bar Linkage Synthesis, Two and Three Task Positions
These notes for the Stanford University course ME 322 Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms introduce the synthesis of a four-bar linkages that guide the coupler link through two and three specified task positions.
More notes on Kinematic Synthesis Also see my book Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms: a project based approach
December 12, 2017. These notes have been revised to introduce Sandor and Erdman’s formulas for linkage synthesis which solve for the input and output cranks. This provides a nice pairing with the related equations that are solved for the fixed and moving pivots, directly.