Alan Hendrickson

Mechanical Design for the Stage (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Scenic effects involving rotating turntables, tracking stage wagons, and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small pneumatic cylinders pushing loads of a few pounds an inch or two, to 40 horsepower winches running multi-ton scenery at speeds 6 feet per second or more. Usually this machinery is designed by theatre technicians specifically for a particular show's effect. Compared to general industry, this design process is short, often only a few days long, it is done by one person, design teams are rare, and it is done in the absence of reference material specifically addressing the issues involved. The main goal of this book is to remedy this last situation.

Mechanical Design for the Stage will be a reference for you that will:
* provide the basic engineering formulas needed to predict the forces, torques, speeds, and power required by a given move
* give a technician a design process to follow which will direct their work from general concepts to specific detail as a design evolves, and
* show many examples of traditional stage machinery designs.

The book's emphasis will be on following standard engineering design and construction practices, and developing machines that are functional, efficient to build, easily maintained, and safe to use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136036026
• Artikelnr.: 38264792

Autorenporträt

Alan Hendrickson is a Professor (Adjunct) of Technical Design and Production at Yale School of Drama, and an independent consultant in scenery mechanization and control since 1984. Classes taught at Yale include Physics of Stage Machinery, Automation Control, Pneumatics and Hydraulics, and Mechanical Design for Theatre Applications. His outside consultant work includes hydraulic, control, and mechanical design for effects running on Broadway, national tour, and regional theatre shows, mainly through Hudson Scenic Studio.

Inhaltsangabe

Basic Concepts: Displacement, velocity acceleration
The force to accelerate mass
The force to overcome friction
The lifting force
Emax analysis- E-stop
Power example
Basic Concepts: Angular Displacement, angular speed, angular acceleration
The torque to accelerate mass
The torque of overcome friction
The lifting torque
Tmax analysis-E-stop
Rotational Power Example
Combining Linear and Rotary Motion
Safety
Power Sources
Electric Motors
Fluid Power Actuators
Speed Reduction
General Concepts
Gear Reducers
Chain Reduction
Belts
Shafting
Bearings and Wheels
Wire Rope & Sheaves
Cable Drums
Screw Mechanisms
Brakes
Control, from a mechanical design point of view
Frames and Framing
Freedom and Constraint
The Mechanical Design Process
Specification
Concept Design and Concept Evaluation
Detail Design
Manufacture
Cable Drum Winches
Turntable Drives
Guides, Tracks, Dogs and Knives
Lifts
Traps
Miscellaneous mechanisms: bellcranks, linkages, escapements, etc
Appendixes.