Machine Design

80-20 For School

Mechanics of Materials

 

Mechanical Breadboard Kit

Mechanical Breadboard Books

 

Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.crafts.metalworking/2HBK5BKXM-M

Reid Tools -> Reid Supply -> Essentra (no kits)

https://sdp-si.com/eStore/Catalog (no kits? has Fairloc and other things)

 

 

from Jensen's machine design class article

 

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WM Berg, no longer sells them:

 

WM Berg http://www.globalspec.com/FeaturedProducts/Detail/BergWM/Breadboard_Components/75463/0

     detailed list: https://www.electronicfasteners.com/pdfs/berg/INCHSectionD.pdf

     overview http://www.wmberg.com/catalog/pdf/b00d2-5.pdf 

http://precisionparts.wmberg.com/timingBeltsChains/ 

 

BOOK: WM Berg, The Theory and Application of Precision Mechanical Components 1965:

 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_picDesignCApplicationofPrecisionMechanicalComponen_16569106

 

 

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PIC Design (where Berg wrote his book) does still sell them:

 

PIC breadboard kits: http://pic-designcatalog.com/images/pdfcat/SECTION_10.PDF#PAGE=3 

     http://pic-designcatalog.com/cgi-bin/lansaweb?srve=PRDLST+F(LW3CATURL)=EDUCATIONAL_KITS_AND_PRECISION_TOOLS 

 

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Import? http://www.makit.co.in/products.php

 

 

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Literature

 

The Analysis and Development of a Mechanical Breadboard Structure 

James Andrew Mikes, under Wood @ UT Austin

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a461564.pdf

 

Statics; Van, Doanh et al. “Design a Mechanical Breadboard for Effective Teaching for Engineering Statics.” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lakey City, UT 2004. 

 

Fluids: Mountain, Jeff. “The Use of Applied Process Control System Design to Attract Engineering Students.” 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. Savannah, GA 2004.  

 

 

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Wood, John, et al

"Enhancing the teaching of machine design by creating a basic hands-on environment with mechanical ‘breadboards’." International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education 33.1 (2005): 1-25.

cited by 21: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=519135253669156003

http://www.sutd.edu.sg/cmsresource/idc/papers/2005-_Enhancing_the_teaching_of_machine_design_by_creating_a_basic_hands-on_environment_with_mechanical_breadboards.pdf

 

"building on what others have done using hands-on devices to enhance their courses [8–15], by establishing a suite of hands-on techniques that will apply to a course in machine design"

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Wood, John J., and Kristin L. Wood

"The Tinkerer’s Pendulum for Machine System’s Education: Creating a Basic Hands-On Environment with Mechanical Breadboards." Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2000.

http://www.sutd.edu.sg/cmsresource/idc/papers/2000-_The_Tinkerers_Pendulum_For_Machine_Systems_Education-_Creating_A_Basic_Hands_On_Environment_With_Mechanical_Breadboards.pdf

http://www.me.utexas.edu/~alps/publications/documents/ASEE_2000TheTinkerersPendulum.pdf 

cited by 17: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7070050434563472107

Breadboard alternatives

• Precision Mechanical Breadboard Kits
• Household Consumer Products
• Children’s Construction Kits
• Radio-Controlled (RC) Car Kits
• Transmission: gears, bearings, shafts, fasteners
• Drive train: motors, clutches, shafts, belts 
• Suspension: spring variations (e.g. length, stiffness, diameter) 
• Steering: motors, levers, linkages, fasteners  
• Automobile/Aircraft Subsystems

 

UT Austin ME338: Fundamentals of Machine Elements: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~marshek/teaching/ME338.html

USAFA ME 370: Machine Design

 

 

2009 ABET: https://www.me.utexas.edu/welcome/abet_pdfs/abet_syllabi_app_a/me_338_abet_wood.pdf

 

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Active Learning Products for Engineering Education: 

http://www.me.utexas.edu/~alps/publications/index.php

 

 

ALP methodology: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~alps/publications/documents/ASEE_2006_MethodologyandTools.pdf

 

Mechanics of Materials: http://www.usafa.edu/df/iita/Technical%20Reports/From%20Tootsie%20Rolls%20to%20Composites%20for%20Web.docx.pdf

 

 

Designettes:

 

 

Example p23: http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/319710/1/AZU_TD_BOX96_E9791_1957_22.pdf