Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ambrs̤io, Jorge A. C. (Editor), Eberhard, Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2009.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 511
• Subjects: Engineering.; Vibration.; Engineering design.; Engineering Design.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.
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This book presents a broad range of tools for designing mechanical systems, including kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid and flexible multibody systems and their advanced optimization. The methodologies are presented from their fundamentals to the point where it is possible to build and analyze...

Table of Contents:

• Planar Multibody Systems
• Spatial Multibody Systems
• Synthesis of Mechanisms
• Differential-Geometric Aspects of Constrained System Dynamics
• Dependent Variable Formulations
• Independent Variable Formulation
• Other Useful Modeling and Simulation Techniques
• Sensitivity Analysis: Linear Static Spring Systems
• Sensitivity Analysis: Nonlinear Static Spring Systems
• Sensitivity Analysis: Generalized Coordinate Kinematic Systems
• Optimization of Mechanical Systems
• Using Augmented Particle Swarm Optimization for Constrained Problems in Engineering
• Optimization of Mechatronic Systems Using the Software Package NEWOPT/AIMS
• Topology Optimized Synthesis of Planar Kinematic Rigid Body Mechanisms
• Grid-Based Topology Optimization of Rigid Body Mechanisms
• Lumped Deformations: a Plastic Hinge Approach
• Distributed Deformation: a Finite Element Method
• Optimization of Flexible Multibody Systems.