Analysis and verification of a Watt I six-bar furniture hinge mechanism

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 219, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1107-1117

  Chen, F C ^a  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Equation of motion; Furniture; Hinge; Mechanism; Structural synthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DESIGN; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MECHANISMS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VECTORS;

COORDINATE PARTITIONING METHOD; DESIGN CONSTRAINT; FURNITURE HINGE MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL SYNTHESIS; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; VECTOR LOOP METHOD;

HINGES;

HINGE;

EID: 28944451317     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095440605X31922     Document Type: Article

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