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Author: Ahmed A. Shabana | Size: 3.6 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2010 | pages: 386 | ISBN: 9780521154222
Dynamics of Multibody Systems, Third Edition, introduces multibody dynamics, with an emphasis on flexible body dynamics. Many common mechanisms such as automobiles, space structures, robots, and micromachines have mechanical and structural systems that consist of interconnected rigid and deformable components. The dynamics of these large-scale, multibody systems are highly nonlinear, presenting complex problems that in most cases can only be solved with computer-based techniques. The book begins with a review of the basic ideas of kinematics and the dynamics of rigid and deformable bodies before moving on to more advanced topics and computer implementation. This revised third edition now includes important new developments relating to the problem of large deformations and numerical algorithms as applied to flexible multibody systems. The book's wealth of examples and practical applications will be useful to graduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers working on a wide variety of flexible multibody systems.
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A comprehensive and practical guide to surveying for archaeologists, with clear instructions in archaeological mapping, recording field work and detailed case studies from the UK, Europe and the US. Philip Howard provides a user’s guide to methods and instruments of surveying to enable archaeologists to represent their own fieldwork confidently and independently. Archaeological Surveying is an invaluable resource which:
- provides beginner’s instructions to software used in computerised surveying, including IntelliCAD 2000, Terrain Tools, Christine GIS and Global Mapper
- introduces the archaeologist to a range of surveying instruments such as GPS, electronic distance measures, theodolites and magnetic compasses
- includes low-cost software.
This textbook is an essential read for any field archaeologists who are in need of an introduction to surveying, or simply wish to update their techniques.
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Statics and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies presents an interdisciplinary approach to mechanical engineering through a close evaluation of the statics and dynamics of rigid bodies, presenting a concise introduction to both. This volume bridges the gap of interdisciplinary published texts linking fields like mechatronics and robotics with multi-body dynamics in order to provide readers with a clear path to understanding numerous sub-fields of mechanical engineering. Three-dimensional kinematics, rigid bodies in planar spaces and numerous vector and matrix operations are presented in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of mechanics through dynamics and rigid bodies.
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Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics (2nd Edition)
Author: Gary Gray, Michael Plesha, Francesco Costanzo | Size: 113 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: McGrawHill | Year: 2012 | pages: 1471 | ISBN: 9780073380315
Based upon a great deal of classroom teaching experience, Plesha, Gray, & Costanzo provide a visually appealing learning framework to your students. The look of the presentation is modern, like the other books the students have experienced, and the presentation itself is relevant, with examples and exercises drawn from the world around us, not the world of sixty years ago. Examples are broken down in a consistent manner that promotes students' ability to setup a problem and easily solve problems of incrementally harder difficulty.
Engineering Mechanics is also accompanied by McGraw-Hill's Connect which allows the professor to assign homework, quizzes, and tests easily and automatically grades and records the scores of the students' work. Most problems in Connect are randomized to prevent sharing of answers and most also have a "multi-step solution" which helps move the students' learning along if they experience difficulty.
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Movement in a seven storey reinforced concrete frame
Authors:
J. P. Forth; J. J. Brooks ; P. R. Bingel
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The construction of a seven storey reinforced concrete (RC) frame at the Building Research Establishment's Large Building Test Facility in Cardington, (the European Concrete Building Project) provided an ideal opportunity to obtain long-term movement data for a number of different standard and innovative concrete mix designs and to assess the accuracy of existing design methods for predicting elasticity, shrinkage and creep. The investigation involved monitoring the strain of a number of columns of the RC frame and carrying out creep and shrinkage tests on small concrete specimens over a period of nine months. The columns were made from concrete having grade strengths from 37 to 85 MPa and contained mineral and chemical admixtures. The actual movements were then compared with movements predicted from the corresponding small concrete prism measured test data using established prediction methods. The results of the analysis indicated that the movements of the columns within the RC frame were predicted to within the range of 10–20%. In addition, elastic, creep and shrinkage movements of the small concrete prisms can be predicted satisfactorily by the CEB-FIP Model Code 90.
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