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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.
List of contents
1. Introduction2. Mechanical Elements3. Mechanical Systems4. Electrical Systems5. Fluid and Thermal Systems6. The Laplace Transform7. Transfer Function Approach8. State Space Approach9. Frequency-Domain Approach10. Coupled-Field Systems11. Block Diagrams and Feedback Control System Modeling12. Stability of Feedback Control Systems13. Time- and Frequency-Domain Controls of Feedback SystemsAppendix A Complex NumbersAppendix B Matrix AlgebraAppendix C Solutions to Linear Homogeneous Ordinary Differential Equations with Constant CoefficientsAppendix D Basics of SimulinkAppendix E Essentials of MATLAB and System Dynamics-Related ToolboxesAppendix F Deformations, Strains, and Stresses of Basic Line Mechanical Members
About the author
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.
