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Formulas are presented for obtaining the characteristics of a four-bar linkage, designed to generate an arbitrary function approximately over a finite range. A number of methods of varying degrees of accuracy and complexity have been developed, enabling a designer to select the one best suited to his requirements.
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Reprinted with permission from Transactions of the ASME, Vol.77, Aug. 1955, pp.853–861.
Analysis of four-bar linkages has been considered in a previous paper by the author, entitled “An Analytical Approach to the Design of Four-Link Mechanisms”, Trans. ASME, Vol. 76, 1954, pp. 483–492.
Based on a thesis undertaken in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University. Assoc. Mem. ASME.
Contributed by the Machine Design Division and presented at a joint session of the Machine Design Division and Lubrication Activity at the Fall Meeting, Milwaukee, Wis., September 8–10, 1954, of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Note. Statements and opinions advanced in papers are to be understood as individual expressions of their authors and not those of the Society. Manuscript recived at ASME Headquarters, March 30, 1953. Paper No. 54-F-14.
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Freudenstein, F. Approximate synthesis of four-bar linkages. Reson 15, 740–767 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-010-0084-7
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