Vibration of nearly perfect spring equilibrators

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Soper, R Randall ^a   Mook, Dean T ^a   Reinholtz, Charles F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; CABLES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; KINEMATICS; PULLEYS;

ARM ROTATION; ATTACHMENT POINTS; FREE LENGTHS; PHASE PORTRAIT; RANGE OF MOTIONS; ZERO-FREE;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

EID: 85101926876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC97/DAC-3768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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