ME 316

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ME 316 Dynamics and Vibration    http//engrwww.u
sask.ca/classes/ME/316/index.html   Fall,
2009    Instructor  
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Course Contents

• Kinematics of Spatial Mechanisms
• Kinetics of Spatial Mechanisms
• Vibration
• Mechanisms design issue

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Mechanism design issues
Issue 1 Degree of Freedom Issue 2
Synthesis Issue 3 Quality of kinematic motion
transfer Issue 4 Other types of mechanisms
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Spatial mechanism
Complex mechanisms - robots
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Spatial mechanism ?
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Spatial mechanism
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Evaluation

• Final Exam 70
• Midterm 20
• Assignments 10
• If final exam mark is greater than midterm exam
  mark,
• final exam 90
• assignment 10.

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Evaluation
Late submission of assignment is subject to 5
deduction of the mark for assignment.
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Approach to Learning/Teaching

• Emphasis on concepts development
• Emphasis on systematic problem solving procedure
• Emphasis on generalization of knowledge
• Examples -gt Problems -gt Theory formulation -gt
  Solving the problems -gt Theory review -gt
  Guidelines for any problem