Fundamentals of Mechanical Design

Author: Chen Guoding, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This textbook is developed in response to the practical needs of current teaching reform in various disciplines of mechanical engineering and automation. It combines the authors' extensive teaching experience and achievements, with additions, deletions, supplements, and reorganization of the content in the courses of Mechanical Principles and Mechanical Design. The book aims to cultivate students' innovative design capabilities, with a focus on strengthening the integration and comprehensive understanding of structural design and related knowledge. The book is divided into four parts and twenty chapters, covering the main content of: Introduction, Basic Knowledge of Mechanism Composition and Analysis, Common Materials for Mechanical Parts and Basic Knowledge of Mechanism Design, Planar Linkage Mechanisms, Cam Mechanisms, Gear Drive, Worm Drive, Gear Trains and Reducers, Belt Drive and Chain Drive, Screw Drive, Brief Introduction to Other Transmission Mechanisms, Mechanism Combination and Structural Design, Threaded Connections, Other Common Connecting Parts and Springs, Shafts and Support Parts, Couplings, Clutches, and Brakes, Structural Design of Shaft Systems, Composition and Scheme Design of Mechanical Systems, and Dynamics Design of Mechanism Systems. Each chapter is followed by a certain number of review questions and exercises. This book can serve as a textbook for mechanical engineering and automation disciplines in higher education institutions, as a teaching reference for related courses in similar disciplines, and as a reference for relevant engineering technicians.