This fourth edition has been totally revised and updated with many additions and major changes. The material has been reorganized to match better the sequence of topics typically covered in an undergraduate course on kinematics. Text includes the use of iterative methods for linkage position analysis and matrix methods for force analysis. BASIC-language computer programs have been added through…
Introduction ‘Are you cut out to be a patternmaker?’ vii 1 Foundry Tour 1-72 2 Mathematics 73-112 3 Background 113-132 4 Fundamentals 133-228 5 Materials 229-276 6 Construction 277-390 7 Machinery 391-542 8 Lost Pattern Process 543-564 9 Plaques and Labels 565-582 10 Bibliography 583-584 11 Appendix 585-650