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Download Solution PDFThe piston-cylinder arrangement of a reciprocating engine along with connecting rod, crankshaft, and flywheel:
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Slider crank mechanism:
It has one sliding pair and three turning pairs. Link 2 has rotary motion and is called a crank. Link 3 has got combined rotary and reciprocating motion and is called connecting rod. Link 4 has a reciprocating motion and is called a slider. Link 1 is a frame (fixed). This mechanism is used to convert rotary motion to reciprocating and vice versa.
The reciprocating engine is an inversion of the slider-crank mechanism with the cylinder as a fixed member.
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