Branch and circuit defect elimination in spherical four-bar linkages

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 491-504

  Gupta, K C ^a   Beloiu, A S ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b United Conveyor Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DEFECTS; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

SPHERICAL FOUR-BAR LINKAGES;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 0032108993     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(97)00078-5     Document Type: Article

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