Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ambrósio, Jorge A. C. (Editor), Eberhard, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2009.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 511
• Subjects: Engineering.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Mechanical engineering.; Engineering design.; Engineering Design.; Mechanical Engineering.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.

Multibody systems are used extensively in the investigation of mechanical systems including structural and non-structural applications. It can be argued that among all the areas in solid mechanics the methodologies and applications associated to multibody dynamics are those that provide an ideal fra...

Table of Contents:

• Planar Multibody Systems
• Spatial Multibody Systems
• Synthesis of Mechanisms
• Differential-Geometric Aspects of Constrained System Dynamics
• Dependent Variable Formulations
• Independent Variable Formulations
• 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 Lagrangian 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.