Connor, AMDouglas, SSGilmartin, MJ2014-04-122014-04-1219981998Journal of Engineering Design, vol.9(3), pp.239 - 249https://hdl.handle.net/10292/7102This paper reviews several uses of harmonic information in the synthesis of mechanisms and shows that such information can be put to even greater use in this ®eld. Results are presented for both single and multi-degree of freedom systems which support this claim. In both cases, the inclusion of harmonic information into the objective function aids the search to locate high-quality solutions.Copyright © 1998 Taylor & Francis. This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Journal of Engineering Design and is available online at: www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article (see Publisher’s Version).Journal ArticleOpenAccess10.1080/095448298261534