System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications

by Nicolae Lobontiu

Overview

System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition provides a classical approach to system dynamics that is designed for a one-semester course for upper-level undergraduate students. It focuses on mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering, featuring examples from compliant mechanisms and MEMS/NEMS. The text aims to offer a robust understanding of system dynamics, helping students grasp both fundamental and complex concepts. The updated edition has been reorganized and updated to enhance the flow for instructors and students. It includes a greater variety of topics, applications, and real-world examples, along with more basic examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Additionally, the edition offers comprehensive analysis and design examples, ensuring a well-rounded educational experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128045596
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/31/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	786
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nicolae Lobontiu, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Professor Lobontiu’s teaching background includes courses in system dynamics, controls, instrumentation and measurement, mechanics of materials, dynamics, vibrations, finite element analysis, boundary element analysis, and thermal system design.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Mechanical Elements3. Mechanical Systems4. Electrical Systems5. Fluid and Thermal Systems6. The Laplace Transform7. Transfer Function Approach8. State Space Approach9. Frequency-Domain Approach10. Coupled-Field Systems11. Block Diagrams and Feedback Control System Modeling12. Stability of Feedback Control Systems13. Time- and Frequency-Domain Controls of Feedback SystemsAppendix A Complex NumbersAppendix B Matrix AlgebraAppendix C Solutions to Linear Homogeneous Ordinary Differential Equations with Constant CoefficientsAppendix D Basics of SimulinkAppendix E Essentials of MATLAB and System Dynamics-Related ToolboxesAppendix F Deformations, Strains, and Stresses of Basic Line Mechanical Members

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Provides a modern system dynamics textbook, featuring balanced coverage of the main field systems - mechanical, electrical/electromagnetic, thermal, and fluid/pneumatic

Editorial Reviews

"This is without doubt a text that can be used with relative ease by instructors and students alike, and that would likely serve as a useful and practical reference for many years after graduation, especially given its systematic approach to the essential physical modeling elements. The content is nicely laid out with good quality illustrations and clean lines and achieves an appropriate balance between theoretical derivations and examples." —Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

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