Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Basics of Mechanisms Chapter 2: Motion Control Systems Chapter 3: Industrial Robots Chapter 4: Mobile Scientific, Military, and Research Robots Chapter 5: Linkages: Drives and Mechanisms Chapter 6: Gears, Devices, Drives, and Mechanisms Chapter 7: Cam, Geneva, and Ratchet Drives and Mechanisms Chapter 8: Clutches and Brakes Chapter 9: Latching, Fastening, and Clamping Devices and Mechanisms Chapter 10: Chain and Belt Devices and Mechanisms Chapter 11: Spring and Screw Devices and Mechanisms Chapter 12: Shaft Couplings and Connections Chapter 13: Motion-Specific Devices, Mechanisms, and Machines Chapter 14: Packaging, Conveying, Handling, and Safety Mechanisms and Machines Chapter 15: Torque, Speed, Tension, and Limit Control Systems Chapter 16: Instruments and Controls: Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Electric, and Electronic Chapter 17: Computer-Aided Design Concepts Chapter 18: Rapid Prototyping Chapter 19: New Directions in Mechanical Engineering Index

About the Author

Neil Sclater switched his career from engineering in the military/aerospace industry to writing and editing in the field of electromechanical and electronic technology. After years as a staff editor for engineering magazines, he set up his own consulting firm in technical communications. While serving a varied list of industrial clients over a 25-year period, he contributed hundreds of articles to various engineering publications. Mr. Sclater has degrees from Brown University and Northeastern University. He has authored or co-authored eleven McGraw-Hill Professional books, including two earlier editions of this book.
The late Nicholas P. Chironis was a consulting engineer and mechanical design editor for Product Engineering magazine and an editor for other McGraw-Hill technical magazines. Early in his career he was a mechanical engineer for IBM, Merganthaler Linotype, and other companies, as well as a product design instructor at the Cooper Union School of Engineering. Mr. Chironis earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic University, New York.