Theory Of Machines And Mechanisms

Theory Of Machines And Mechanisms by P. L. Ballaney

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Book Summary:

There are scores of books written by master minds on the subject; yet this book is perhaps the first book of its kind in so far as the following unique features of it are concerned.

(i) Major portion ofthe book incorporates the Nationalised Metric Units with as far as possible LS.L recommended technical abbreviations and with ajudicious balance offoot-poundsecond units in the chapters on Gears, Inertia Analysis in Machines, Governor, Balancing, Mechanical Vibrations. Gyroscopes which are prescribed for senior years and also for examinations of the professional institutions where the change-over to Metric units at this stage is not complete.

(ii) The long cherished hope of the student community has been fulfilled by not only providing a profusion of schematic and free body diagrams drawn to generous scales with enough information given on the diagram itself, but all the graphical solutions of numerous solved numerical problems are reproduced to scales measurable from the book and such scales of graphical solutions have been given in the book itself. Author and the Compiler consider this feature as an added asset in view of the fact that it facilitates checking each step in the graphical solutions, which otherwise is difficult.

Audience of the Book :

This book Useful for Mechanical Engineering Students.

Table of Content:

1. Definitions And Basic Concept

2. Motion And Inertia

3. Velocities In Mechanism: Instantaneous Centre Method

4. Velocities In Mechanisms: Velocity Polygons

5. Acceleration In Mechanism-acceleration Polygon Method

6. Mechanism With Lower Pairs: Straight Line And Copying Devices

7. Cams

8. Gyroscope

9. Friction

10. Belt, Rope And Chain Drive

11. Brakes And Dynamometers

12. Toothed Gears

13. Gear Trains

14. Inertia Force Analysis In Machines

15. Turning Moment Diagrams And Flywheel

16. Governors

17. Balancing Of Rotating And Reciprocating Masses

18. Mechanical Vibration

19. Hooke's Joint Steering Gears-trifilar Suspension

20. Automotive-vehicle Propulsion

21. Introduction To Automatic Control

22. Analysis Of Mechanisms-_\Nalytical Approach

23. Introduction To Kinematic Synthesis

24. Introduction To Computer Aided Analysis Of Mechansims

25. Introduction To Computer-aided Synthesis Of Machines

Appendices

Test Papers

Interconversion Tables

Index