Welcome to the world of MAMBO, a software package for the modeling and analysis of multibody mechanisms.

This student project was created by undergraduate engineering student David Hogarty at Virginia Tech during the Fall 2004 iteration of the course ESM 4124, Multibody Mechanics and Visualization at Virginia Tech.

The project presents a kinematically correct animation of the function of a pair of locking pliers invented by Rivera and described in United States Patent #6,691,357.

Click on the link below to download the corresponding MAMBO files.

pliers.zip (zip file, 12kB, 2004-12-06)

For a more in-depth discussion of the methodology and the instructional approach used in this course, see Multibody Mechanics and Visualization by Harry Dankowicz, published by Springer Verlag UK, 2004.