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Prof. McCarthy2015-11-20 08:40:562017-04-14 13:54:48SIAM News: Biologically inspired linkage design
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Prof. McCarthy2015-11-13 23:33:082017-04-14 13:56:24Heart Trajectory
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Prof. McCarthy2015-08-14 16:57:512017-04-14 13:56:47Full Size Folding Bicycle
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Prof. McCarthy2015-08-11 08:11:562017-04-14 14:00:12Actuating Morphing Linkages
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Prof. McCarthy2015-07-30 16:30:382022-09-17 09:29:49A four-bar linkage provides a shape changing extrusion die
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Prof. McCarthy2015-05-01 08:34:182022-09-17 09:33:57Walking Machines
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Prof. McCarthy2015-03-12 20:02:092022-09-17 09:25:55Another version of the six-bar folding linkage
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Prof. McCarthy2015-03-12 10:01:052022-09-17 09:25:55Six-bar linkage folds a structure
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Prof. McCarthy2015-03-08 15:47:212022-09-17 09:25:55Eight-bar Port Closure Tool
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Prof. McCarthy2015-01-18 09:46:012019-03-25 21:19:26Four-bar function generator: Open a door
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Prof. McCarthy2014-12-02 16:35:092019-03-25 21:22:08Introduction to Linkages
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Prof. McCarthy2014-11-14 09:42:512022-09-17 09:25:56Linkage Design for Wing Flapping
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Prof. McCarthy2014-11-14 09:27:142019-03-26 20:38:16Linkage Synthesis at Disney Research Zurich
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Chris McCarthy2014-09-11 18:32:262022-09-17 09:43:023D Printed Demining Training Aids
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Prof. McCarthy2014-06-03 20:17:092022-09-17 09:25:56Eight-bar motion amplifier
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Prof. McCarthy2014-04-17 03:17:112017-04-14 14:36:21Rectilinear eight-bar suspension
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Prof. McCarthy2014-04-09 19:57:262017-04-14 14:36:44Rectilinear eight-bar linkage
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Prof. McCarthy2014-01-20 23:15:042017-04-14 14:37:08Six-bar linkage with rectilinear moving link
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Prof. McCarthy2013-08-10 15:21:252019-03-26 20:45:15Mechanical charactersLinkage Design Concepts
Jessica Koa designed the flower with petals actuated by six-bar linages.
Link Yun’s flower with six-bar linkages moving the petals.
Benjamin Liu’s Terrarium uses six-bar linkages to open the glass sides.
DJ Fuller’s Jack-o’Lantern uses six-bar linkages to open the segments.
Jessica Kao developed this sofa bed that opens using a six-bar linkage.
Ling Yun used our sofa beg linkage to display a gift.
Design Innovation
Student designs of six-bar linkages
Andrew Brouwer’s six-bar linkage to guide the petals.
Kamil Samaan designed this six-bar linkage.
Bojun Lin’s six-bar linkage guiding the pedals of a flower.
Colin Sledge’s six-bar flower.
Frank Liu’s six-bar flower.
Cameron Turner’s six-bar linkage flower.
Adam Shutt designed this six-bar to guide the opening of the petals of a flower.
Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar to guide the wings of this butterfly.
Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals of this flower.
Hsuan-chen Wan used MechGen 3 to design a six-bar linkage to guide the petals of the flower.
Student designs of four-bar linkages
Hsuan-chen Wan’s animation of a four-bar linkage that moves the petals of a flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSmz3hYk-o[/youtube]
Cameron Turner’s design of a flower that moves with a four-bar linkage.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0hQQn0OfI[/youtube]
Mohamed Ali’s four-bar linkage for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoCPh53_f9M[/youtube]
Scott Bougie’s animation of his flower design.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1v7PjDWjg[/youtube]
Frank Liu’s four-bar linkage design for the petal movement.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsFgoPgpmXA[/youtube]
Yang Liu’s four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGrp2tvf0Q[/youtube]
Kamal Samaan’s design of the four-bar linkage driven flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6JTY9HpLs[/youtube]
The flower designed by Colin Sledge.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFudL7fBUBU[/youtube]
This is Andrew Brouwer’s design for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81Lrjsli_Y[/youtube]
Adan Amarillas designed this linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZBBVFFivQ[/youtube]
Brandon Creager animated a spiral opening for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oar2wuqLxyA[/youtube]
Adam Shutts designed this linkage to open the petals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5phQxLbKrU[/youtube]
Bojun Lin designed this flower linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bi90cgQaU8[/youtube]
Kelly Lin designed this linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm3P_dn3Zys[/youtube]
Tim Rasmussen designed the linkage to open and close the flower petals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMiDrbZGrU[/youtube]
This is the four-bar linkage designed by Ryan Kuehne.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWBDXI81t4[/youtube]
Siqi Shi designed this four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qvh9onP7cI[/youtube]
Tianming Cheng designed this four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcnwIhc5-rU[/youtube]
Brendan Smith uses the movement of the petal linkage for a different application.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAHqWz4cNk[/youtube]