Mechanical Design Handbook

Solid Edge has a very useful application called " Motion " which allows a user to simulate the movement of mechanical parts. This enables the machine designers to test and make sure that the movement of their mechanism is the same as they expect before manufacturing parts. This helps save a lot of money. However, instead of using " Motion " application, I would like to show you how to simulate the motion of mechanical parts using a sketch in Solid Edge together with Microsoft Excel. Why? Most of the time, I started my mechanical design with the concept and layout using sketches. If we could simulate the motion of mechanical parts in a sketch, it would help me a lot. I got this idea when I was playing with sketches and constraints in Solid Edge . Solid Edge allows us to change the dimensions easily by just rotating the mouse wheel. Watch the following video to see how easy to make the motion in sketch. So what I have to do is just to have Microsoft

Problems in mechanical design often require the solution of nonlinear equation such as 3x 3 - 20x 2 + 1000x + 12000 = 0 These problems are sometimes stated in the form, find the zeros or roots of the function f(x) = 3x 3 - 20x 2 + 1000x + 12000 = 0 that is, find the values of x that make f(x) = 0. Therefore, they are sometimes called root solving problems . The equation shown above is a typical equation encountered in the problem of finding the maximum stress at a point. While such equations can be solved by trial and error (simply guessing value until the left-hand side of the equation is nearly zero), there exist simple, systematic ways to solve such problems. Two such methods - the Method of False Position and Newton-Raphson method. The Method of False Position is a systematic method of narrowing down the region in which the root exists. And another one is the Newton-Raphson method of root solving. It is more sophisticate than the Method False Position. It uses