Course

MICRO-200: Mechanism Design I

Lectures in this course (108)

Explores the transformation of constraints and deformations in materials, focusing on stress analysis and tensor diagonalization.

Explores failure criteria, emphasizing the Von Mises criterion for material failure in structures and machines.

Explores moment of inertia in bending beams and stress analysis for beam sections.

Discusses the radius of curvature of fiber, belt materials, stress considerations, and constraints in belt systems.

Explores the kinematic analysis of various flexure-joints and configurations, including degrees of freedom and hyperstaticity.

Delves into spring and articulated structure design, stress limits, fatigue tests, safety factors, and kinematic relations.

Introduces torsion, stresses, internal torques, shear stress profiles, and composite bars.

Introduces torsion, explaining relative stresses and strains in bars, shear modulus, and torque transmission.

Analyzes stress states in the plane, focusing on shear stress, main axes, and safety factors.

Covers torsion of non-circular bars, stresses, strains, and angle calculation.

Explores shear stress, relative deformations, shear modulus, and torsional shear stress in circular and thin-walled tubes.

Covers the introduction to torsion, shear stress, and angle of torsion in non-circular bars.

Explores kinematic analysis of ideal guiding structures, emphasizing mobility and degrees of freedom.

Covers the analysis of internal forces in beams and beam deflection.

Explains the section method for analyzing internal forces in beams and the importance of conventions in determining the sign of internal forces.

Explains the differential method in beams, calculating integration constants and internal forces.

Explores the analysis of distributed forces, including calculations, replacements, reactions, and edge conditions.

Explores quadratic moment, relative strains in beams, and pure flexion, focusing on neutral axis, curvature, and normal stresses.

Explains stress, bending moment, and moment of inertia in beam sections.

Covers the concept of hyperstaticity in flexible guides, discussing causes and consequences of overconstraint.