Includes data and functions gathered from several areas of science and technology for the purpose of facilitating the use if ultrasonic energy. It book provides a reference to pertinent regulations dealing with solvents, allowable exposure levels of intensity and time, and electromagnetic limitations.
Written by experienced practitioners and researchers in the field, this book brings together recent developments in the field, spanning a broad range of themes from analytical and computational structural acoustics and vibration to noise diagnostics.
This text uses linear algebraic principles and notations to establish airframe equations of motion, so that the solutions to given problems remain in real time and frequency. It also uses modern control theory concepts to introduce the airframe as a plant matrix operator.
This volume discusses parametric resonance and its occurrence in mechanical systems including those found in road, air and seagoing vehicles. It introduces the root causes of PR as well as its mathematical interpretation via the Mathieu-Hill equation.
This book examines advanced nonlinear topics in vibration mitigation and system identification, including analytical methods for strongly nonlinear dyanmical systems; passive vibration mitigation based on nonlinear targeted energy transfer (TET) and more.
This book explains robotics concepts in detail, concentrating on their practical use. It provides related theorems and formal proofs as well as applications. It details a wealth of robotics topics, most notably orientation, velocity, and forward kinematics.
Motion and vibration control is a fundamental technology for the development of advanced mechanical systems such as mechatronics, vehicle systems, robots, spacecraft, and rotating machinery. This book deals with the interdisciplinary aspects of technologies of motion and vibration control for mechanical, civil and aerospace systems.
This book offers revised and extended versions of invited papers from the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference "Multibody Dynamics 2009, spanning the most active areas and the recent efforts of many prominent research groups in the field of multibody dynamics.
Provides solutions to a variety of vibration problems of arches and beams. This title aims to provide information and solutions for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions problems that engineers and researchers use for the advanced analysis of dynamical behavior of arches and beams.
This monograph presents theoretical methods, computational results and experimental demonstrations of this concept applied to discrete and continuous coupled nonlinear oscillators. It demonstrates the wide applicability of targeted nonlinear energy transfer.
Identifying, modelling and controlling nonlinear vibrations is becoming increasingly important in a range of engineering applications. This book discusses the interrelationship between three separate, but related areas; linear vibration theory for multi-degree-of-freedom systems, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and nonlinear control.
Large structures such as factories, gymnasia, concert halls, bridges, towers, masts and chimneys can be detrimentally affected by vibrations. This book provides structural and civil engineers working in construction and environmental engineering with practical guidelines for counteracting vibration problems.
Deals with the structural vibration reduction making use of passive damping control techniques by means of surface treatments with viscoelastic materials. This work provides a relevant survey on different subjects concerning viscoelastic treatments. It shows two examples of application.
Adopting a linear graph approach, rather than the bond graph or no graph approach, this work features a clear presentation of frequency response. It also develops in detail the construction of lumped-parameter system models from sets of primitive elements.
Now in this third updated and expanded edition, this text offers an introduction to the dynamics of active structures and to the feedback control of lightly damped flexible structures, with the emphasis on basic issues and simple control strategies that work.
With more than 170 illustrations, this volume provides vital insights into the predictive control of lightly damped vibrating structures through efficient algorithms capable of low-frequency vibration control, guaranteed stability and constraint feasibility.
This translation of the standard German handbook offers practical help for solving acoustic problems. Coverage includes the origin, transmission and methods of abatement of air-borne and structure-borne sound, from traffic to machinery and flow induced sound.
Suitable for junior-level courses in System Dynamics, this text presents students with the basic theory and practice of system dynamics. It introduces the modeling of dynamic systems and response analysis of these systems, with an introduction to the analysis and design of control systems.
A reference for modeling, analyzing, simulating, measuring, monitoring, testing, controlling, and designing for vibration in engineering systems. It offers problems and examples, a chapter on human response to vibration, and the inclusion of LabVIEW, SIMULINK[registered], and MATLAB[registered] software tools.
Addresses the modeling of mechanical system components, especially different damping models, as well as numerical methods in vibrations. This title includes coverage of control, data and testing, kinematics and dynamics, as well as MATLAB. It is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate course in vibrations.
Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering provides an insight in advanced methods and concepts for the design and analysis of seismic loading. The book consists of 25 chapters dealing with a wide range of timely issues in contemporary Earthquake Engineering.
Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic such as the motion of a pendulum or random such as the movement of a tire on a gravel road. Vibration is occasionally 'desirable'. Careful designs minimise unwanted vibrations. This book presents research from around the world in this field.
Presents an understandable approach to dynamics in engineering practice. This text covers dynamics essentials, dynamic systems, and vibrations. It treats dynamics as a continuous evolution of motion using differential equations rather than algebraic-based mathematics to explain the material.
Covering what is an emerging frontier in research, this book focuses on advanced computational methods and software tools. These can be of huge assistance in tackling complex problems in stochastic dynamic and seismic analysis as well as structure design.
Mechanical vibrations are the continuing motion, repetitive and often periodic, of a solid or liquid body within certain spatial limits. This book examines the study of vibratory phenomena during mechanical grape harvesting, and the utility of mechanical vibration methods for studying physical properties of solid materials.
This fourth edition of this volume features a new chapter on computational methods that presents the basic principles on which most modern computer programs are developed. It introduces an example on rotor balancing and expands on the section on shock spectrum and isolation.
System Dynamics is an engineering discipline in which students learn how to create and analyze mathematical models of dynamic mechanical, electrical/electromagnetic, thermal and fluid/pneumatic systems. Following a classical approach to system dynamics, this book covers the field systems (mechanical, electrical, thermal and fluid/pneumatic).
Offers coverage that includes discussion of the root locus and frequency response plots, among other methods for assessing system behavior in the time and frequency domains as well as topics such as function discovery, parameter estimation, and system identification techniques, motor performance evaluation, and system dynamics in everyday life.