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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Laplace transform
3. Mechanical elements
4. Mechanical systems
5. Electrical systems
6. Fluid systems and electrical systems
7. Coupled-field systems
8. Transfer function approach
9. State-space approach
10. Frequency-domain approach
11. Block diagrams and feedback control systems
12. Stability of feedback control systems
13. Time- and frequency-domain controls of feedback systems
Appendices:
A. Review of rigid-body dynamics
B. Complex numbers
C. Matrix algebra
D. Review of linear ordinary differential equations
E. Basics of Simulink
F. Essentials of MATLAB and system dynamics
G. Deformations, strains and stresses of basic mechanical members
