A quadratic form-based approach to identification of kinematic chains in structural analysis and synthesis of mechanisms

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 551-560

  He, Peiren ^a   Zhang, Wenjun ^a   Li, Qing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; GRAPH STRUCTURES; GRAPHIC METHODS; NUMBER THEORY;

ISOMORPHISM; KINEMATIC CHAINS; QUADRATIC SURFACES; ADJACENCY MATRICES; ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; EIGENVALUES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS; KINEMATIC CHAIN; NEW APPROACHES; QUADRATIC FORM; TWO-GRAPHS;

MECHANISMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 0012936567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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