Question: A 3 - cylinder engine is shown below. All cylinders lie in a single transverse plane. The three cylinder centerlines are 1 2 0 degrees

A 3-cylinder engine is shown below. All cylinders lie in a single transverse plane. The three cylinder centerlines are 120 degrees apart. The crank of length 0.06 m rotates at a constant angular velocity of 100rad//s(ccw). The length of the three identical connecting rods is 0.6 m . The mass centers of the connecting rods are at their midpoints. The crank and the rotational mass of the coupler have been balanced with a mass center at the mainline of rotation. The combined reciprocating mass (the translating mass of each connecting rod and the piston mass) is 2.5 kg . Determine (i) the shaking force magnitudes when the crank rotates to coincide with the three cylinder centerlines, (ii) devise a balancing scheme and recalculate the shaking force magnitudes at the same three crank positions as in (i), and (iii) comment on the effectiveness of your balancing scheme. [20]
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