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A mechanical analysis of the hydraulic saw of Hierapolis is presented. The device is the oldest example of saw moved by a water wheel and using a crank and rod mechanism. A bas relief representing the machine was found in Hierapolis, Phrygia, now Turkey, and was studied by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Hierapolis. The bas relief was dated III Century A.D. The paper starts from the archaeological studies of the find and from the early reconstructions that were proposed and presents a new pictorial reconstruction, a mechanical model and a model made by means of WM 2D™; the latter permitted to easily obtain the mechanical behavior of the machine. The water wheel was also modeled starting from archaeological relict found at Venafro, Italy.
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Rossi, C., Savino, S., Timpone, F. (2017). An Analysis of the Hydraulic Saw of Hierapolis. In: Boschetti, G., Gasparetto, A. (eds) Advances in Italian Mechanism Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48375-7_15
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