linkage_5_bar.

xls
To design 5-bar bolt-cutter linkage
By Alex Slocum, last modified 12/04/04 by Xue'en Yang
Enter numbers in BOLD, Results in RED
Schematic
Fh
3
x h, yh
h
B 3 Y
a
g 2 A 4
 b k
f m  i x j, y j
 1 j
d Fj
C e X
c

Design Parameters Values

a (mm) 100
b (mm) 40
d (mm) 30
g (mm) 10
h (mm) 40 hmin 30 hmax 50
i (mm) 30
j (mm) 50
Fh (N) 200
beta (deg, rad) 95 1.658
Linkage motions
Theta (degrees) 40.00 31.07 22.15 13.22 4.29
Fj (N) 458 709 1220 3159 6888
amplification 2 4 6 16 34
Equations
 2  g 2  h2 
  cos 1  b   1      e  b cos  1
 2bg 
1  f  d 
f  b sin  1  2  sin   m  a cos  2
 a 
1  j 
c  me k  i2  j 2  3  sin  
k
 4      2  3 x h  c  g cos  y h  g sin 
2 2
F h dx h  dy h
x j  k cos  4 y j  d  k sin  4 Fj 2
dx j  dy j
2
theta (radians) 0.698 0.542 0.387 0.231 0.075
Calculated dimensions
gamma 1.45 1.45 1.45 1.45 1.45
alpha1 1.00 1.15 1.31 1.47 1.62
e 21.68 16.20 10.33 4.21 -2.01
f 33.62 36.57 38.64 39.78 39.95
alpha2 0.04 0.07 0.09 0.10 0.10
m 99.93 99.78 99.63 99.52 99.50
c 121.61 115.98 109.96 103.73 97.49
k 58.31 58.31 58.31 58.31 58.31
alpha3 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03
alpha4 0.49 0.52 0.54 0.55 0.55
xh -129.27 -124.55 -119.22 -113.46 -107.46
yh 6.43 5.16 3.77 2.29 0.75
xj 51.47 50.63 50.02 49.68 49.62
yj 2.59 1.08 0.04 -0.53 -0.62
dtheta -1E-03 -1E-03 -1E-03 -1E-03 -1E-03
dxh 2.80E-02 3.25E-02 3.58E-02 3.79E-02 3.90E-02
dyh -7.66E-03 -8.56E-03 -9.26E-03 -9.73E-03 -9.97E-03
dxj -5.95E-03 -4.70E-03 -3.11E-03 -1.30E-03 6.14E-04
dyj -1.12E-02 -8.23E-03 -5.20E-03 -2.11E-03 9.95E-04

For differential calculations

6.99E-01 5.43E-01 3.88E-01 2.32E-01 7.59E-02
Calculated dimensions
gamma 1.45 1.45 1.45 1.45 1.45
alpha1 1.00 1.15 1.31 1.46 1.62
e 21.71 16.24 10.37 4.25 -1.97
f 33.59 36.56 38.63 39.77 39.95
alpha2 0.04 0.07 0.09 0.10 0.10
m 99.94 99.78 99.63 99.52 99.50
c 121.65 116.02 110.00 103.77 97.53
k 58.31 58.31 58.31 58.31 58.31
alpha3 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03
alpha4 0.49 0.52 0.54 0.55 0.55
xh -129.30 -124.58 -119.25 -113.50 -107.50
yh 6.44 5.17 3.78 2.30 0.76
xj 51.47 50.64 50.02 49.68 49.62
yj 2.60 1.09 0.04 -0.53 -0.62