A study of the solvability of the position problem for multi-circuit mechanisms by way of example of the double butterfly linkage

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 390-395

  Waldron, K J ^a   Sreenivasan, S V ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

DOUBLE BUTTERFLY LINKAGE; FOUR BAR CIRCUITS; POSITION ANALYSIS;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 0030245232     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2826898     Document Type: Article

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