Engineering Dynamics: From the Lagrangian to Simulation [2013] [PDF]

Title: Engineering Dynamics: From the Lagrangian to Simulation
Series: Mechanical Engineering
Author: Roger F. Gans
Format: PDF
Hardcover: 267 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2013 edition (March 23, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781461439295


This engineering dynamics textbook is aimed at beginning graduate students in mechanical engineering and other related engineering disciplines who need training in dynamics as applied to engineering mechanisms. It introduces the formal mathematical development of Lagrangian mechanics (and its corollaries), while solving numerous engineering applications. The author’s goal is to instill an understanding of the basic physics required for engineering dynamics, while providing a recipe (algorithm) for the simulation of engineering mechanisms such as robots. The book will be reasonably self-contained so that the practicing engineer interested in this area can also make use of it. This book is made accessible to the widest possible audience by numerous, solved examples and diagrams that apply the principles to real engineering applications.

• Provides an applied textbook for intermediate/advanced engineering dynamics courses;
• Discusses Lagrangian mechanics in the context of numerous engineering applications;
• Includes numerous, solved examples, illustrative diagrams and applied exercises in every chapter