Mechanical Design for the Stage
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Constant Acceleration
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Deck Tracks
Deck Winch
Drive Sheave
Drum Shaft
Effect Design Specification
electromechanical actuators
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Fleet Angles
Friction Drive
gear
Gear Reducer
Input Shaft
load calculation formulas
machinery
Mechanical Design Process
motion simulation analysis
Pillow Blocks
Positioning Feedback
Rake Angle
reducer
Reduction Ratio
roller
Roller Chain
rope
safety engineering theatre
scenic motion control
Set Screw
Shaft Couplings
Single Failure Proof
Stage Machinery
stage machinery engineering design
theatre automation systems
Toothed Belts
tracks
Turntable Drives
winch
wire
Wire Rope
Worm Gear
Worm Gear Reducer
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- ISBN 9781138129252
- Weight: 952g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
