Civil Engineering Association

This book introduces a general approach for schematization of mechanical systems with rigid and deformable bodies. It proposes a systems approach to reproduce the interaction of the mechanical system with different force fields such as those due to the action of fluids or contact forces between bodies, i.e., with forces dependent on the system states, introducing the concepts of the stability of motion. In the first part of the text mechanical systems with one or more degrees of freedom with large motion and subsequently perturbed in the neighborhood of the steady state position are analyzed. Both discrete and continuous systems (modal approach, finite elements) are analyzed. The second part is devoted to the study of mechanical systems subject to force fields, the rotor dynamics, techniques of experimental identification of the parameters and random excitations. The book will be especially valuable for students of engineering courses in Mechanical Systems, Aerospace, Automation and Energy but will also be useful for professionals. The book is made accessible to the widest possible audience by numerous, solved examples and diagrams that apply the principles to real engineering applications.

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Nonlinear Systems with 1-n Degrees of Freedom....Pages 1-81
The Dynamic Behaviour of Discrete Linear Systems....Pages 83-240
Vibrations in Continuous Systems....Pages 241-309
Introduction to the Finite Element Method....Pages 311-412
Dynamical Systems Subjected to Force Fields....Pages 413-553
Rotordynamics....Pages 555-708
Random Vibrations....Pages 709-770
Techniques of Identification....Pages 771-818

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