Fulleroid-Like Linkages

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2008-09-20

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Kiper, Goekhan

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The Fulleroid, discovered by K. Wohlhart, is a 48-link overconstrained spatial linkage which expands and contracts within a rhombic dodecahedral boundary. In this paper, some similar types of linkages are synthesized based on some observations on the Fulleroid. First an infinite class of 24-faced polyhedral linkages is described. Next the idea is generalized for polyhedra having rhombic faces. Then analyzing these linkages a basic closed chain is derived as a module and some dipyramidal and stellated polyhedral linkages are synthesized using this module.

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Overconstrained spatial linkages, Polyhedral linkages

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64332

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Conference / Seminar