International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings HMM2004

408 Pages·2004·21.281 MB·English

by  Prof. Marco Ceccarelli (auth.), Marco Ceccarelli (eds.)

International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
International Symposium on History
of Machines and Mechanisms
Proceedings HMM2004
Edited by
MARCO CECCARELLI
Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica,
Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture,Ambiente eTerritorio,
Università di Cassino, Cassino, Italy
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Table of Contents
Preface ix
List of Contributors xi
1. History of IFToMM
Ceccarelli M.: A Short Introduction on IFToMM officers over time 3
Ceccarelli M., Koetsier T.: On the IFToMM Permanent Commission for History
of MMS 11
Ionescu T., Bögelsack G., Leinonen T.: Past, Present and Future in Mechanism
and Machine Science Terminology 27
Rieger N. F.: Development and Activities of the IFToMM Rotordynamic
Committee, 1977-2004 35
2. Ancient Machines
Yan H.-S., Huang H.-H.: A Study on Western and Chinese Locks Based on
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries 41
Xuan G., Zhen L.: A Simulating Experiment on the Ancient Chinese
Astronomical Clock Tower 57
Rieger N. F.: Engineering Aspects of the Collapse of the Colossus of Rhodes
Statue 69
Chondros T. G. : “Deus-Ex-Machina” Reconstruction and Dynamics 87
3. Past Ideas for New Designs
Borisov A., Golovin A., Ermakova A.: Some Examples from the History of
Machinery in Teaching TMM 107
Chen I.-M., Tay R., Xing S., Yeo S.H.: Marionette: From Traditional
Manipulation to Robotic Manipulation 119
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4. People in MMS and Their Works
Golovin A.: Bauman University TMM Department in the Former Half of the
XX-th Century (Professor N. Mertsalov & Professor L Smirnov) 137
Berkof R. S.: History of Machines and Mechanisms by the Stevens Family and
at Stevens Institute of Technology 149
Zaharov I., Jatsun S., Jatsun S.: Russian Scientist – Mechanics Ufimtsev A.G. 163
Husty M.: The Kinematic Work of W. Wunderlich 169
5. Historical Development of Theories
Koetsier T., Blauwendraat H.: The Archimedean Screw-Pump: A note on its
Invention and the Development of the Theory 181
Merlet J.-P.: A Note on the History of Trigonometric Functions 195
Kerle H. : On the Development of the Constraint Motion Theory of Franz
Reuleaux – An Overview 201
Oliveira A.R.E.: The Contribution of Coulomb to Applied Mechanics 217
6. Mechanical Designs
Zrnic N., Hoffmann K.: Development of Design of Ship-To-Shore Container
Cranes: 1959-2004 229
Strizhak V., Penkov I., Pappel T.: Evolution of Design, Use and Strength
Calculations of Screw Threads And Threaded Joints 243
Bautista Paz E., Munoz Sanz J.L., Leal Wina P., Echavarri Otero J.: Industrial
Archaeology: Form the 17-th to the 21-st Century. Reconstruction of
Herschel’s Telescope 259
Mauersberger K.: Piston Engine versus Rotary Engine – Possible Structural
Solutions in the Invention and Development of the Steam Engine
before 1900 269
7. Mechanism Analysis and Design
Ceccarelli M.: Historical Evolution of the Classification of Mechanisms 285
Dijksman E.: On the History of Focal Mechanisms and Their Derivatives 303
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Luck K., Rehwald W.: Historical Evolution of the Pole-Theory 315
Moon F. C.: The Reuleaux Models: Creating an International Digital Library of
Kinematics History 331
8. Automata and Robots
Arakelyan V.: The History of the Creation and Development of Hand-Operated
Balanced Manipulators (HOBM) 347
Zielinska T.: Development of Walking Machines; Historical Perspective 357
Dias Bezerra C. A., Zampieri D. E.: Biped Robots: The State of Art 371
Bicker B., Burn K., Hu Z., Pongaen W., Bashir A.: The Early Development of
Remote Tele-Manipulation Systems 391
Author Index 405
Preface
The HMM2004 International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is
the second event of a series that has been started in 2000 as main activity of the
IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS, Mechanism and Machine
Science. The aim of the HMM Symposium is to be a forum to exchange views,
opinions, and experiences on History of MMS from technical viewpoints in order to
track the past but also to look at future developments in MMS.
The HMM Symposium Series is devoted to the technical aspects of historical develo-
pments and therefore it has been addressed mainly to the IFToMM Community. In fact,
most the authors of the contributed papers are experts in MMS and related topics.
This year HMM Symposium came back to Cassino, after the challenging first event in
2000. The HMM2004 International Symposium on History of Machines and
Mechanisms was held at the University of Cassino, Italy, from 12 to 15 May 2004.
These Proceedings contain 29 papers by authors from all around the world. These
papers cover the wide field of the History of Mechanical Engineering and particularly
the History of MMS. The contributions address mainly technical aspects of historical
developments of Machines and Mechanisms. History of IFToMM, the International
Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science is also outlined
through the historical activities of some of its Commissions.
Original sources of technical achievements and works are referenced in the papers so
that these Proceedings can be also considered a kind of handbook on History of
Machines and Mechanisms. This book is of interest to researchers, graduate students
and engineers specializing or addressing attention to History of Science and
Technology, and particularly on History of MMS.
The figure of the cover has been extracted from the Table of the millstone work for
modern TMM (now renamed as MMS because of the enlargement of the discipline):
Lanz J.M. and Betancourt A., 1808, "Essai sur la composition des machines", Paris. The
cover of the Proceedings of HMM2000 was selected from the book: Allievi L, 1895,
“Cinematica della biella piana”, Regia Tipografia Francesco Giannini & Figli, Napoli.
For HMM2000 the figure was selected as a figure giving the idea of man walking ahead
from the past by using an old scheme of kinematic properties of a mechanism that are
still of great interest. In the case of the figure for the cover of the Proceedings of
HMM2004 the table with several mechanisms has been selected to attract people with
the richness of mechanism designs from the past that are still of current practical
interest.
I believe that a reader will take advantage of the papers in these Proceedings with
further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not).
I would like to express my grateful thanks to the members of the International
Organizing Committee of the Symposium: prof. Alexander Golovin (Russia), prof.
Teun Koetsier (The Netherlands), prof. Carlos Lopez-Cajùn (Mexico), prof. Jammi S.
Rao (India), prof. Junichi Takeno (Japan), prof. Lu Zhen (China-Beijing), prof. Hong-
Sen Yan (China-Taipei) and to the members of the IFToMM Commission for History of
MMS for co-operating enthusiastically for the success of the HMM initiative. I am
grateful to the authors of the articles for their valuable contributions and for preparing
their manuscripts on time, and to the reviewers for the time and effort they spent
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evaluating the papers. I would like to thank the sponsors of the Symposium: IFToMM
and the University of Cassino, as well as my colleagues and assistants Dr Erika
Ottaviano and Dr Giuseppe Carbone at the University of Cassino for their help.
I am grateful to my wife Brunella, my daughters Elisa and Sofia, and my young son
Raffaele. Without their patience and comprehension it would not have been possible for
me to organise HMM2004 International Symposium on History of Machines and
Mechanisms.
Cassino, May 2004
Marco Ceccarelli
Chairman for The International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
LIST of Contributors
Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
(Chairman of the IFToMM Permanent Commission for
History of MMS)
LARM: Laboratory of Robotics e Mechatronics
DiMSAT, University of Cassino
Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr)
Italy
Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
email: [email protected]
http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/larmindex.html
Prof. Vigen Arakelian
Department of Mechanics and Automatics
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
20 avenue des Buttes de Coësmes - CS 14315
F-35043 Rennes Cedex
France
Fax: + (33) 02 23 23 86 22
e-mail: [email protected]
INSA webpage : http://www.insa-rennes.fr/
Dr. Abdouslam Bashir
School of Mechanical & Systems Engineering,
Stephenson Building,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
UK
Prof. Emilio Bautista Paz
Laboratory of Machines & Mechanisms
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
C/ José Gutierrez Abascal,
2 E-28006 Madrid
Spain
Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
email: [email protected]
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