DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF FOUR

BAR MECHANISM

ABSTRACT
The aim of this Kinematics Based on Four Bar Linkage to make a four bar linkage
and display the movement by a hand crank. The four-bar linkage is a movable and
simplest linkage. It includes four rigid bodies known as bars or links. These are
connected by pivots to produce a closed loop. Four-bars are the common
mechanisms in mechanical engineering and kinematics. The pivot joint includes one
rotational degree of freedom and mechanism is planar.

The planar four-bar linkages include many different motions based

on calculations. Many mechanisms include movable members and
these motions form trajectories points on the mechanism. The link is
rigid in every mechanism which acts like a frame.

Inversions mechanisms are configurations with manipulation of the

rigid link known as frame. The data from one link is utilized to know
about other inversions. Inversion technique is used for mechanisms
synthesis and analysis.

There are two kinds of joints based on contact type. They are lower pair
joint and higher pair joint. Lower pair joint is contact of area among two
mating surfaces whereas higher pair joint is link among mating surfaces
like line contact. the constant body is known as ground link which is
required to get every position. There are two links linked to the ground are
known as grounded links and the left link is known as coupler link. The
second grounded link is the follower link.

APPLICATIONS
A four-bar linkage used as the suspension for a bicycle.
Pantograph (four-bar, two degrees of freedom, i.e., only one pivot joint is
fixed.)
Crank-slider, (four-bar, one degree of freedom)
Double wishbone suspension
Watt's linkage and Chebyshev linkage Biological linkages
Bicycle suspension