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Disaster Resistant Buildings
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Mechanics of Marine Machines 4 min read
TYPES OF GEARS
A gear is a kind of machine element in which teeth are cut around cylindrical or cone shaped surfaces with…
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Punch press
A punch press is a type of machine press used to cut holes in material. It can be small and manually operated and hold…
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STATIC FORCE ANALYSIS OF MACHINERY
Systems without Resisting Force Initially, we shall neglect the forces associated with the inertia of the links and the resisting…
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STATIC EQUILIBRIUM
From Newton’s First Law, a body is in static equilibrium if the resultant of all the forces (excluding the inertia…
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FORCES IN MACHINE SYSTEMS
A machine system is considered to be a system of an arbitrary group of bodies (links), which will be considered…
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TYPES OF CONSTRAINED MOTIONS-
1) Completely Constrained Motion- when the motion between a pair is limited to a definite direction irrespective of the direction of…
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TYPES OF KINETIC PAIRS
1) Sliding pair- when the two elements of a pair are connected in such a way that one element can slide…
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Grashof’s Law
The Grashof’s law states that for a four-bar linkage system, the sum of the shortest and longest link of a…