本书突出了机械的设计，以矢量分析为基础，特别是强调了利用计算机进行设计与分析。主要内容有：机器与机构运动学设计的基本概念，刚体平面运动，曲柄滑块机构，铰链四杆机构，速度匹配机构，急回机构，广义四杆机构，多环与多杆机构，机构综合的定性方法，双矢量综合与机构的计算机辅助综合，齿轮机构，齿轮与轮系，机构的力、力矩与静平衡，机构的力、力矩与动平衡。
本书可供高校工科院校使用，也可作为机构工程技术人员的参考书。

序
出版说明
List of Procedures
Preface
How to Use This Book
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts and Definitions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Kinematics and Kinematic Design
1.3 Machines and Mechanisms
1.4 Properties of Rigid Bodies
1.5 Rigid Body Position and Degrees of Freedom
1.6 Displacements in Three-Dimensional Space
1.7 Joined Rigid Bodies in Three-Dimensions:Degrees of Freedom
1.8 Number of Degrees of Freedom to Be Used in a Machine
1.9 Practical Degrees of Freedom versus Computed Degrees of Freedom
1.10 Planar Motion and Rigid Body Degrees of Freedom
1.11 Displacements in Planar Motion
1.12 Joints and Their Effects on Planar Motion:Degrees of Freedom
1.13 Computed Degrees of Freedom versus Practical Degrees of Freedom
1.14 Kinematic Inversion
Chapter 2 Rigid Body Planar Motion
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Position and Displacement of a Point
2.3 Position and Displacement of a Rigid Body
2.4 Velocity of a Point and Some Vector Differentiation
2.5 Velocity of a Rigid Body
2.6 Acceleration of a Pooint
2.7 Acceleration of a Rigid Body
Chapter 3 Crank-Slider Mechanisms
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Scotch Yoke
3.3 Synthesis of the Scotch Yoke
3.4 Velocity and Acceleration Analysis of the Scotch Yoke
3.5 The In-Line Crand-Slider Linkage
3.6 Position Analysis and Synthesis of the In-Line
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Chapter 4 Pin-Jointed Four-Bar Linkages
Chapter 5 Inverted Crank-Slider Mechanisms,Velocity Matching Mechanisms,and Quick-Return Mechanisms
Chapter 6 The General Four-Bar Linkage
Chapter 7 Multiloop Linkages and Other Linkages with More than Four Links
Chapter 8 Qualitative Approaches ot Linkage Synthesis
Chapter 9 Dyad Synthesis and Computer-Aided Synthesis of Linkages
Chapter 10 Cams
Chapter 11 Gears and Gear Trains
Chapter 12 Forces,Torques,and Static Balancing
Chapter 13 Forces,Torques,and Dynamic Balancing
Index