Study of structural isomorphism among mechanisms kinematic chains

In this paper, the adjacency and incidence matrices to determine the topological structure of a mechanism upto structural isomorphism are studied and found that these methodssatisfy the uniqueness and de-codability conditions but are computationally inefficient. The other methods of identification of structural isomorphisms including the characteristic polynomials, the MAX code, and the degree code, are also presented. The paper is extremely useful for P.G students, research scholar and designer of mechanisms at the conceptual stage of design.