System Dynamics for Engineering Students

Concepts and Applications
3. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-323-99582-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition provides a classical approach to system dynamics that is designed for a one-semester course for upper-level undergraduate students. It focuses on mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering, featuring examples from compliant mechanisms and MEMS/NEMS. The text aims to offer a robust understanding of system dynamics, helping students grasp both fundamental and complex concepts. The updated edition has been reorganized and updated to enhance the flow for instructors and students. It includes a greater variety of topics, applications, and real-world examples, along with more basic examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Additionally, the edition offers comprehensive analysis and design examples, ensuring a well-rounded educational experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lobontiu, Nicolae

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Statik, Dynamik, Kinetik, Kinematik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Modellierung & Simulation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. The Laplace transformation
3. Mechanical elements
4. Mechanical systems
5. Electrical systems
6. Fluid and thermal systems
7. Coupled systems

8. State space modeling
9. Transfer function modeling

10. Steady-state and frequency response to harmonic input
11. Block diagrams and feedback control system modeling
12. Stability of feedback control systems
13. Time- and frequency-domain controls of feedback systems

Appendices:

A. Complex numbers
B. Matrix algebra
C. Solutions to linear homogeneous ordinary differential equations and sets with constant coefficients
D. Basics of Simulink
E. Essentials of system dynamics-related MATLAB
F. Deformations and forces in deformable bars and beams

Über Autor(innen)

Lobontiu, Nicolae
Nicolae Lobontiu, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Professor Lobontiu's teaching background includes courses in system dynamics, controls, instrumentation and measurement, mechanics of materials, dynamics, vibrations, finite element analysis, boundary element analysis, and thermal system design.