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(More customer reviews)Nicolae Lobontiu, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, brings his years of experience teaching classes in system dynamics, as well as the knowledge gleaned from writing four related previous texts -- Dynamics of Microelectomechanical Systems; Mechanical Design of Microresonators; Mechanics of Microelectromechanical Systems; and, Compliant Mechanism: Design of Flexure Hinges -- to produce this solid text for students entering this emerging field.
The discipline of system dynamics focuses on teaching students "how to create and analyze mathematical models of dynamic, mechanical, electrical/electromagnetic, thermal, and fluid/pneumatic systems" for the purpose of designing and then testing systems before they are actually built. While the author retains a classical approach, Lobontiu also introduces examples from compliant mechanisms and microscale devices and machines.
Consideration is given to mechanical engineering problems for junior and senior-level undergraduate students in support of mechanical, aerospace, electrical, biomedical and civil engineering courses and explores mechanism and movement in springs and joints present in "micro-machined, lithographic based devices to traditional models of microscale, fluidic, and electromechanical systems." Offers a "foundation and framework for the development of controllers applied to these dynamical systems." Includes examples and problems at the end of each chapter to familiarize readers with the modeling and dynamical systems engineers are likely to encounter in the future.
Publisher touts the text as "the first system dynamics textbook to include extensive examples from the relatively new application areas of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and compliant (flexible) mechanical devices," and to offer "more ancillary instructor support than any other system dynamics text."
Text is divided into eleven chapters and four appendices:
Ch. 1 Introduction; Ch 2. Mechanical Systems I; Ch. 3 Mechanical Systems II; Ch. 4 Electrical Systems; Ch. 5 Fluid and Thermal Systems; Ch. 6 The Laplace Transform; Ch. 7 Transfer Function Approach; Ch. 8 State-Space Approach; Ch. 9 Frequency Domain Approach; Ch. 10 Coupled-Field Systems; Ch. 11 Introduction to Modeling and Design of Feedback Control System.
Appendix A Solution to Linear Ordinary Homogeneous Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients; Appendix B Review of Matrix Algebra; Appendix C Essentials of MATLAB and System Dynamics-Related Toolboxes; and, Appendix D Deformations, Strains and Stresses of Flexible Mechanical Components.
Recommended for use by instructors teaching a one-semester text for engineering students; by scientists and practicing engineers wanting to better understand the fundamentals of dynamic systems, engineering modeling, vibrations, and system dynamics; and, inclusion in college and university library collections supporting mechanical, aerospace, electrical, biomedical and civil engineering courses.
R. Neil Scott
Middle Tennessee State University
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