Course

MICRO-200: Mechanism Design I

Lectures in this course (108)

Generalized Hooke Law: 3D

Explores the Generalized Hooke Law in 3D, stress-strain relationships, and material properties.

Bearings - Design and Sizing

Covers the design and sizing of bearings, emphasizing the importance of tight fitting rings.

Reduced Inertia and Torque: Transmission Principles

Explores reducing inertia and torque in mechanical systems with one degree of freedom.

Flexible Guidance: Flexible Kinematics

Explores flexure mechanisms, degrees of freedom, stiffness, and parasitic motion in leaf springs and rods.

Metal Springs: Integration and Sizing

Covers the integration and sizing of metal springs in microtechnology.

Deformation and Thermal Effects

Explores stresses, strains, deformations, and thermal effects in structures, including temperature variations and hyperstatic systems.

Relative Deformation in 3D: Strain Matrix

Explores relative deformation in 3D through strain matrix and displacement gradient, emphasizing constraints, stress-strain relations, and equilibrium equations.

Deformations and Constraints

Covers relative deformations, flexibility matrix, stress relations, and internal forces in structures.

Constraints and Relative Deformations in 2D

Explains the reduction of 3D problems to 2D using constraints and relative deformations.

Deformation: Axial Stress and Equilibrium

Explores deformation in 3D and 2D, stress-strain relations, equilibrium under axial stress, and body treatment as springs.

Thermal Effects: Hyperstatic Systems

Explores thermal effects on materials, including stress, strain, and hyperstatic problems.

Energy Density: Relative Strain Energy

Explores relative strain energy in solid materials and its analogy with spring energy, stress-strain relationship, and temperature effects.

Mechanism Design: Bearing Assembly Q&A

Covers the analysis of bearing assemblies, focusing on preload force calculation and lifespan estimation.

Transmissions: Belts

Explores the characteristics and performance factors of flat and toothed belts in transmissions, including practical examples and exercises.

Flexible Guidance: Intuitive Kinematic Analysis

Explores the intuitive kinematic analysis of flexible guidances and the critical loads for buckling.

Material Selection: Microtechnology Design

Explores material selection criteria in microtechnology design and the influence of fatigue on material limits.

Stress and Strain Transformations

Explores stress and strain transformations, main stresses, safety factors, and failure criteria in structural mechanics.

Material Properties and Stress-Strain Curves

Explores material properties, stress-strain curves, stress concentration, and failure criteria in structural mechanics.

Material Properties: Stress Analysis

Covers material properties, stress-strain curves, failure criteria, and stress analysis.

Material Properties: Stress-Strain Curve

Explores stress-strain curves, material properties, and failure criteria in materials, emphasizing the importance of ductile materials' plastic domain.