TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural synthesis of ancient Chinese foot-operated silk-reeling mechanism
AU - Hsiao, Kuohung
AU - Chen, Yuhsun
AU - Yan, Hongsen
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the National Science Council (Taipei, China) under Grant NSC 97-2221-E-006-070-MY3 for the financial support of this work.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This work synthesizes the structures of the foot-operated silk-reeling mechanism, which was vaguely depicted in many literatures in ancient China. Based on the analysis of the mechanism, the structural characteristics and design constraints of the mechanism with indeterminate links and joints are concluded. Then, according to the concepts of generalization and specialization subject to the concluded design constraints, all feasible structures of the mechanism that met the technological standards of the subject's time period are reconstructed. This reconstruction process provides a logical foundation to better understanding, clarification, and suggestions for the issue of ancient mechanical drawings with indeterminate links and joints.
AB - This work synthesizes the structures of the foot-operated silk-reeling mechanism, which was vaguely depicted in many literatures in ancient China. Based on the analysis of the mechanism, the structural characteristics and design constraints of the mechanism with indeterminate links and joints are concluded. Then, according to the concepts of generalization and specialization subject to the concluded design constraints, all feasible structures of the mechanism that met the technological standards of the subject's time period are reconstructed. This reconstruction process provides a logical foundation to better understanding, clarification, and suggestions for the issue of ancient mechanical drawings with indeterminate links and joints.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11465-010-0101-2
DO - 10.1007/s11465-010-0101-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954216015
VL - 5
SP - 279
EP - 288
JO - Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering
JF - Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering
SN - 2095-0233
IS - 3
ER -