Multi-Body Dynamics : Vehicles, Machines and Mechanisms

ISBN-13: 9781860581229 / Angielski

Rahnejat Homer

Opis

This text gives a fundamental review of the subject of multi-body dynamics and shows how multi-body formulation has improved the ability to deal with complex engineering problems.

Spis treści

Didication.

About the author.

Preface.

Chapter 1. Vectors and transformations.

Chapter 2. Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies.

Chapter 3. Constraints formulation in multi–body systems.

Chapter 4. Multi–body dynamic analysis.

Chapter 5. Multi–body dynamics: solution methodology.

Chapter 6. Engine dynamics.

Chapter 7. Power train dynamics.

Chapter 8. Optimal control of multi–body systems.

Index.

O autorze

Dr. Homer Rahnejat has been responsible for the organization of major conferences on multi–body dynamics as well as carrying out a large number of research and development programmes with industry in the UK, Europe, and North America.

Blurb

Multi–Body Dynamics: Vehicles, Machines, and Mechanisms opens by providing an understanding of engineering dynamics and then leads on to the analysis, techniques, and problem solving approaches.