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The article presents an original technique, using the concept of Assur kinematic chains (AKCs), to determine whether a single-degree-of-freedom planar linkage is in a dead-centre position, i.e. a position where the input link is instantaneously stationary. An AKC is a special structure with mobility zero from which it is not possible to obtain a simpler substructure of the same mobility by removing one or more links. The article presents the concept of modularization of planar linkages into AKC based on the choice of the input link. Then, the article presents the constraints on the locations of the instantaneous centres of zero velocity (or instant centres) for a single-degree-of-freedom planar linkage to be in a stationary configuration, i.e. a configuration where one, or more, of the links is instantaneously stationary. The article shows that constraints on the locations of the instant centres for a stationary configuration are satisfied if an AKC, as part of the linkage, gains a degree of freedom. As the modularization of a planar linkage is based on the choice of the input link, the stationary configurations, determined by this method, are in fact dead-centre positions. Finally, this method is applied to indeterminate linkages, i.e. a class of single-degree-of-freedom planar linkages for which it is not possible to locate all the secondary (or unknown) instant centres by the direct application of the Aronhold—Kennedy theorem.

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stationary configurations dead-centre positions Assur kinematic chains instantaneous centres of zero velocity indeterminate linkages

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Study of Dead-Centre Positions of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Planar Linkages Using Assur Kinematic Chains

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