Scotch Yoke EXPERIMENT

Introduction
The Scotch yoke (also known as slotted link mechanism) is a reciprocating
motion mechanism, converting the linear motion of a slider into rotational motion, or vice
versa. The piston or other reciprocating part is directly coupled to a sliding yoke with a slot
that engages a pin on the rotating part. The location of the piston versus time is a sine wave of
constant amplitude, and constant frequency given a constant rotational speed.

Figure 1: scotch yoke

The motion analysis for the Scotch mechanism can be found in most mechanisms text books.
For this case the displacement is given by:

X R(1cos)
And velocity and acceleration can be written as:

v Rsin
a = R2 cos + R sin
Experiment equation

2 1 180
V= *w*
2 1

2 1 180
a=
2 1
*w*
Objective:
Study of reciprocating movement for machines and calculation diagram of
displacement,velocity and acceleration and compare experimental results with therotical
results.

Experimental procedure:
1. Set the SCOTCH YOKE at 0mm for the connecting rod, and 0 for the rotating disk.

2. Measure R the radius for the rotating disk.

3. Change the angle for the disk by 30 each time until 360, and each time measure X .

4. Fill the result in table (1).

5. Plot graphs between the angular displacement and the displacement X, velocity V, and the
acceleration a.

Angular Experiment Theoretical Theoritical Experiment Theoritical Experiment

Displacement position position velocity velocity acceleratin aceleration
()

0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
 120
130
140
150
160
170
180
190
200
210
220
230
240
250
260
270
280
290
300
310
320
330
340
350
360

Table 1: scotch yoke

Discussion
1-Plot experimental and theoretical result for displacement versus angular displacement in the
same graph, as well as theoretical velocity and acceleration versus angular displacement for
Scotch-Yoke mechanisms.

2- compare between the theoritical results and empirical results?

3- discuss the difference between scotch yoke mechanism and the crank shaft internal
combustion engines?
Data

x x x x
0 6 100 97 200 153 300 36
10 2 110 110 210 146 310 24
20 6 120 122 220 138 320 17
30 13 130 133 230 128 330 8
40 22 140 141 240 115 340 3
50 32 150 150 250 102 350 0
60 43 160 154 260 90 360 0
70 55 170 157 270 75
80 70 180 157 280 63
90 83 190 157 290 49