System Dynamics for Mechanical Engineers
System Dynamics for Mechanical Engineers

Author: Matthew Davies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-05

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1461492939

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This textbook is ideal for mechanical engineering students preparing to enter the workforce during a time of rapidly accelerating technology, where they will be challenged to join interdisciplinary teams. It explains system dynamics using analogies familiar to the mechanical engineer while introducing new content in an intuitive fashion. The fundamentals provided in this book prepare the mechanical engineer to adapt to continuous technological advances with topics outside traditional mechanical engineering curricula by preparing them to apply basic principles and established approaches to new problems. This book also: · Reinforces the connection between the subject matter and engineering reality · Includes an instructor pack with the online publication that describes in-class experiments with minimal preparation requirements · Provides content dedicated to the modeling of modern interdisciplinary technological subjects, including opto-mechanical systems, high-speed manufacturing equipment, and measurement systems · Incorporates MATLAB® programming examples throughout the text · Incorporates MATLAB® examples that animate the dynamics of systems

System Dynamics for Engineering Students
System Dynamics for Engineering Students

Author: Nicolae Lobontiu

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 0124172091

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Engineering system dynamics focuses on deriving mathematical models based on simplified physical representations of actual systems, such as mechanical, electrical, fluid, or thermal, and on solving these models for analysis or design purposes. System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications features a classical approach to system dynamics and is designed to be utilized as a one-semester system dynamics text for upper-level undergraduate students with emphasis on mechanical, aerospace, or electrical engineering. It is the first system dynamics textbook to include examples from compliant (flexible) mechanisms and micro/nano electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS). This new second edition has been updated to provide more balance between analytical and computational approaches; introduces additional in-text coverage of Controls; and includes numerous fully solved examples and exercises. - Features a more balanced treatment of mechanical, electrical, fluid, and thermal systems than other texts - Introduces examples from compliant (flexible) mechanisms and MEMS/NEMS - Includes a chapter on coupled-field systems - Incorporates MATLAB® and Simulink® computational software tools throughout the book - Supplements the text with extensive instructor support available online: instructor's solution manual, image bank, and PowerPoint lecture slides NEW FOR THE SECOND EDITION - Provides more balance between analytical and computational approaches, including integration of Lagrangian equations as another modelling technique of dynamic systems - Includes additional in-text coverage of Controls, to meet the needs of schools that cover both controls and system dynamics in the course - Features a broader range of applications, including additional applications in pneumatic and hydraulic systems, and new applications in aerospace, automotive, and bioengineering systems, making the book even more appealing to mechanical engineers - Updates include new and revised examples and end-of-chapter exercises with a wider variety of engineering applications

System Dynamics
System Dynamics

Author: Karl A. Seeler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 1461491525

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This unique textbook takes the student from the initial steps in modeling a dynamic system through development of the mathematical models needed for feedback control. The generously-illustrated, student-friendly text focuses on fundamental theoretical development rather than the application of commercial software. Practical details of machine design are included to motivate the non-mathematically inclined student.

Mechanical System Dynamics
Mechanical System Dynamics

Author: Friedrich Pfeiffer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-09-27

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 3540794360

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Mechanics as a fundamental science in Physics and in Engineering deals with interactions of forces resulting in motion and deformation of material bodies. Similar to other sciences Mechanics serves in the world of Physics and in that of Engineering in a di?erent way, in spite of many and increasing inter- pendencies. Machines and mechanisms are for physicists tools for cognition and research, for engineers they are the objectives of research, according to a famous statement of the Frankfurt physicist and biologist Friedrich Dessauer. Physicists apply machines to support their questions to Nature with the goal of new insights into our physical world. Engineers apply physical knowledge to support the realization process of their ideas and their intuition. Physics is an analytical Science searching for answers to questions concerning the world around us. Engineering is a synthetic Science, where the physical and ma- ematical fundamentals play the role of a kind of reinsurance with respect to a really functioning and e?ciently operating machine. Engineering is also an iterative Science resulting in typical long-time evolutions of their products, but also in terms of the relatively short-time developments of improving an existing product or in developing a new one. Every physical or mathematical Science has to face these properties by developing on their side new methods, new practice-proved algorithms up to new fundamentals adaptable to new technological developments. This is as a matter of fact also true for the ?eld of Mechanics.

System Dynamics and Mechanical Vibrations
System Dynamics and Mechanical Vibrations

Author: Dietmar Findeisen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 3662042053

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A comprehensive treatment of "linear systems analysis" applied to dynamic systems as an approach to interdisciplinary system design beyond the related area of electrical engineering. The text gives an interpretation of mechanical vibrations based on the theory of dynamic systems, aiming to bridge the gap between existing theoretical methods in different engineering disciplines and to enable advanced students or professionals to model dynamic and vibrating systems with reference to communication and control processes. Emphasizing the theory it presents a balanced coverage of analytical principles and applications to vibrations with regard to mechatronic problems.

Dynamics of Mechanical Systems
Dynamics of Mechanical Systems

Author: Harold Josephs

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2002-06-19

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 1420041924

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Mechanical systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and continually require greater precision, improved reliability, and extended life. To meet the demand for advanced mechanisms and systems, present and future engineers must understand not only the fundamental mechanical components, but also the principles of vibrations, stability, and bala

Principles of Analytical System Dynamics
Principles of Analytical System Dynamics

Author: Richard A. Layton

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1461205972

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A novel approach to analytical mechanics, using differential-algebraic equations, which, unlike the usual approach via ordinary differential equations, provides a direct connection to numerical methods and avoids the cumbersome graphical methods that are often needed in analysing systems. Using energy as a unifying concept and systems theory as a unifying theme, the book addresses the foundations of such disciplines as mechatronics, concurrent engineering, and systems integration, considering only discrete systems. Readers are expected to be familiar with the fundamentals of engineering mechanics, but no detailed knowledge of analytical mechanics, system dynamics, or variational calculus is required. The treatment is thus accessible to advanced undergraduates, and the interdisciplinary approach should be of interest not only to academic engineers and physicists, but also to practising engineers and applied mathematicians.

Dynamic Response of Linear Mechanical Systems
Dynamic Response of Linear Mechanical Systems

Author: Jorge Angeles

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1441910263

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Dynamic Response of Linear Mechanical Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation can be utilized for a variety of courses, including junior and senior-level vibration and linear mechanical analysis courses. The author connects, by means of a rigorous, yet intuitive approach, the theory of vibration with the more general theory of systems. The book features: A seven-step modeling technique that helps structure the rather unstructured process of mechanical-system modeling A system-theoretic approach to deriving the time response of the linear mathematical models of mechanical systems The modal analysis and the time response of two-degree-of-freedom systems—the first step on the long way to the more elaborate study of multi-degree-of-freedom systems—using the Mohr circle Simple, yet powerful simulation algorithms that exploit the linearity of the system for both single- and multi-degree-of-freedom systems Examples and exercises that rely on modern computational toolboxes for both numerical and symbolic computations as well as a Solutions Manual for instructors, with complete solutions of a sample of end-of-chapter exercises Chapters 3 and 7, on simulation, include in each “Exercises” section a set of miniprojects that require code-writing to implement the algorithms developed in these chapters

Analytical System Dynamics
Analytical System Dynamics

Author: Brian Fabien

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-11-09

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0387856056

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"Analytical System Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation" combines results from analytical mechanics and system dynamics to develop an approach to modeling constrained multidiscipline dynamic systems. This combination yields a modeling technique based on the energy method of Lagrange, which in turn, results in a set of differential-algebraic equations that are suitable for numerical integration. Using the modeling approach presented in this book enables one to model and simulate systems as diverse as a six-link, closed-loop mechanism or a transistor power amplifier.

The Practice of Engineering Dynamics
The Practice of Engineering Dynamics

Author: Ronald J. Anderson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1119053706

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The Practice of Engineering Dynamics is a textbook that takes a systematic approach to understanding dynamic analysis of mechanical systems. It comprehensively covers dynamic analysis of systems from equilibrium states to non-linear simulations and presents frequency analysis of experimental data. It divides the practice of engineering dynamics into three parts: Part 1 - Modelling: Deriving Equations of Motion; Part 2 - Simulation: Using the Equations of Motion; and Part 3- Experimental Frequency Domain Analysis. This approach fulfils the need to be able to derive the equations governing the motion of a system, to then use the equations to provide useful design information, and finally to be able to analyze experimental data measured on dynamic systems. The Practice of Engineering Dynamics includes end of chapter exercises and is accompanied by a website hosting a solutions manual.