Computer-Aided Graphing and Simulation Tools for AutoCAD Users

ISBN-13: 9780367377991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 632 str.

P. A. Simionescu

Opis

This book allows readers to expand the versatility of AutoCAD® design and documentation software. It provides ready-to-use procedures and computer programs for solving problems in a variety of application areas, including computer-aided design, data visualization, evolutionary computation, numerical methods, single and multicriteria optimization, linkage and robot kinematics, cam mechanisms, and involute gears. Students, engineers, and scientists alike will benefit from the text’s illustrative examples, first-rate figures, and many original problem-solving approaches, as well as the included software tools for producing high-quality graphs and simulations.

Spis treści

Graphical Representation of Univariate Functions and of (x, y) Data Sets. Graphical Representation of Functions of Two Variables. Programs and Procedures for Data Visualization and Data Format Conversion. Root Finding and Minimization or Maximization of Functions. Procedures for Motion Simulation of Planar Mechanical Systems. Kinematic Analysis of Planar Linkage Mechanisms Using Assur Groups. Design and Analysis of Disk Cam Mechanisms. Spur Gear Simulation. More Practical Problems and Applications.

O autorze

Petru Aurelian Simionescu is on the engineering faculty at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. He earned a BSc from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, a doctorate in technical sciences from the same university, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from Auburn University. Simionescu taught and conducted research at seven Romanian, British, and American universities, and worked for four years in industry as an automotive engineer. His research interests include kinematics, dynamics and design of multibody systems, evolutionary computation, CAD, computer graphics, and information visualization. So far, he has authored over 45 technical papers and has been granted seven patents.