0965-9978/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2007.08.003 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 530 752 5020; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (H.H. Cheng A spreadsheet-based mechanism analysis and animation system is presented in this article. The system is developed in Excel using Ch, an embeddable C/C++ interpreter, and Ch Mechanism Toolkit. It allows users to ...

Reentrant processing has been proposed as a critical mechanism in feature binding. To test this claim, participants were shown arrays of six pairs of crossed vertical and horizontal bars. In each pair, one bar was white; one was red, green, or blue. Identifying the orientation, but not the color, of the nonwhite bar in the target item required correct binding. Four dots appeared around one of t...

Four-bar mechanisms are widely used in the industry especially in rotary engines. These mechanisms are usually applied for attaining a special motion duty like path generation; their high speeds in the industry cause an unbalancing problem. Hence, dynamic balancing is essential for their greater efficiency. In this research study, a multi-objective differential evolution algorithm is used for P...