A computer-aided kinematic analysis system for mechanism design and computer simulation

Abstract A unified numerical approach for the investigation of the kinematic behaviour of spatial mechanisms is presented, with classical lower pairs, and contact joints with simple geometric contacting curves. Intermittent contacts and detection of interferences have been considered. This approach has been applied to the kinematic analysis of complex mechanisms, where special cautions have to be taken to tolerancing, especially in gun and machine-gun mechanisms design.