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 | | Mechanism Design: Analysis and Synthesis (4th Edition) by Arthur G. Erdman, George N. Sandor, Sridhar Kota ISBN-10: 0130408727 ISBN-10: 0-13-040872-7 ISBN-13: 9780130408723 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-040872-3 Paperback 2001-05-15 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This thorough and comprehensive web-enhanced edition has been updated and enhanced — No other book has a web connection like this one! The software associated with the book makes it very useful for designing and analyzing linkage and CAM mechanisms. Web-enhanced features include ADAMS™ software, over 200 animated movie files of mechanisms and machines, and a new CAM design package. - To find out more about MSC.Adams® software and how it can be used to complement the use of this text, please visit www.mscsoftware.com/university or send an email to university@mscsoftware.com . New material includes coverage of type synthesis, robot grippers, and curvature cognates, while retaining coverage of traditional material with a significant treatment of kinematic synthesis. All material is explored both graphically and analytically — Graphical methods are used to fully explain basic principles. Features in-depth and rigorous discussions on displacement and velocity analysis; acceleration and force analysis; and cam design. For professionals interested in Kinematics, Mechanisms, and Dynamics. | ||
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Dense and user-unfriendly The authors obviously know a great deal about mechanism design, but they've done a terrible job of conveying that knowledge in a clear fashion. The illustrations are unclear and the photos are even worse. The text reads like a rambling lecture rather than an organized, logical piece of writing. If I could use one word to describe this text, it would be "dense". This book might be useful as a reference, but is terrible for someone seeing the material for the first time. | ||
I would look elsewhere This book was a new choice from our professor who was teaching our mechanism design class. In my opinion, the three authors who wrote it each took a section and slapped their parts together. Totally different writing style as you go throught the book. In addition t is a small book and you constanlty are turning pages to makes references to figures which makes it hard to read with good flw. n addition a lot of the diagrams are unclear and dont necessarily say what they represent. Our professor ended up hating the book himself. A good reference maybe but not for the beginner. | ||
Very bad I'm a junior mechanical engineering student at a university. This is the text used for my kinematics and dynamics of machinery class. This book is very poorly written, and it's not user friendly. It is hard to follow the examples in this book. If someone already has knowledge on mechanism design, then this book may be used as a good reference. But for those just learning, this book is horrible. | ||
a must for mechanical engineers This book is one of the basic books every mechanical engineer has to have in his library. It covers everything starting from the very basics. There is also the second volume which covers advanced topics and completes this one. | ||