Chebyshev Linkage
   HOME



picture info

Chebyshev Linkage
In kinematics, Chebyshev's linkage is a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate linear motion. It was invented by the 19th-century mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev, who studied theoretical problems in kinematic Mechanism (engineering), mechanisms. One of the problems was the construction of a linkage that converts a rotary motion into an approximate straight-line motion (a straight line mechanism). This was also studied by James Watt in his improvements to the steam engine, which resulted in Watt's linkage.Cornell university
– Cross link straight-line mechanism


Equations of motion

The motion of the linkage can be constrained to an input angle that may be changed through velocities, forces, etc. The input angles can be either link ''L''2 with the horizontal or link ''L ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon]


picture info

Watt's Linkage
A Watt's linkage is a type of mechanical linkage invented by James Watt in which the central moving point of the linkage is constrained to travel a nearly straight path. Watt's described the linkage in his patent specification of 1784 for the Watt steam engine. Today it is used in automobile suspensions, where it is key to a suspension's kinematics, i.e., its motion properties, constraining the vehicle axle's movement to nearly vertical travel while also limiting horizontal motion. Description Watt's linkage consists of three bars bolted together in a chain. The chain of bars consists of two end bars and a middle bar. The middle bar is bolted at each of its ends to one of the ends of each outer bar. The two outer bars are of equal length, and are longer than the middle bar. The three bars can pivot around the two bolts. The outer endpoints of the long bars are fixed in place relative to each other, but otherwise the three bars are free to pivot around the two joints where t ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon]




Linkages (mechanical)
Linkage may refer to: * ''Linkage'' (album), by J-pop singer Mami Kawada, released in 2010 * Linkage (graph theory), the maximum min-degree of any of its subgraphs * Linkage (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Linkage (hierarchical clustering), The linkage criterion determines the distance between sets of observations as a function of the pairwise distances between observations *Linkage (linguistics), a set of languages descended from a former dialect continuum *Linkage (mechanical), assemblies of links designed to manage forces and movement *Linkage (policy), a Cold War policy of the United States of America towards the Soviet Union and Communist China * Linkage (software), a concept in computer programming *Genetic linkage, the tendency of certain genes to be inherited together *Glycosidic linkage, a type of covalent bond that joins a carbohydrate (sugar) molecule to another chemical group * Flux linkage, the total flux passing through a surface formed by a closed conduc ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon]



MORE