Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization

1. Front Matter

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2. Planar Multibody Systems

   • John M. Hansen

   Pages 1-21

3. Spatial Multibody Systems

   • John M. Hansen

   Pages 23-38

4. Synthesis of Mechanisms

   • John M. Hansen

   Pages 39-66

5. Differential-Geometric Aspects of Constrained System Dynamics

   • Wojciech Blajer

   Pages 67-81

6. Dependent Variable Formulations

   • Wojciech Blajer

   Pages 83-105

7. Independent Variable Formulations

   • Wojciech Blajer

   Pages 107-129

8. Other Useful Modeling and Simulation Techniques

   • Wojciech Blajer

   Pages 131-150

9. Sensitivity Analysis: Linear Static Spring Systems

   • Daniel A. Tortorelli

   Pages 151-193

10. Sensitivity Analysis: Nonlinear Static Spring Systems

    • Daniel A. Tortorelli

    Pages 195-217

11. Sensitivity Analysis: Generalized Coordinate Kinematic Systems

    • Daniel A. Tortorelli

    Pages 219-235

12. Optimization of Mechanical Systems

    • Peter Eberhard, Dieter Bestle, Werner Schiehlen

    Pages 237-252

13. Using Augmented Lagrangian Particle Swarm Optimization for Constrained Problems in Engineering

    • Peter Eberhard, Kai Sedlaczek

    Pages 253-271

14. Optimization of Mechatronic Systems using the Software Package NEWOPT/AIMS

    • Peter Eberhard, Christian Breuninger, Florian Dignath, Lars Kübler

    Pages 273-285

15. Topology Optimized Synthesis of Planar Kinematic Rigid Body Mechanisms

    • Peter Eberhard, Timo Gaugele, Kai Sedlaczek

    Pages 287-302

16. Grid-Based Topology Optimization of Rigid Body Mechanisms

    • Peter Eberhard, Kai Sedlaczek

    Pages 303-315

17. Lumped Deformations: a Plastic Hinge Approach

    • Jorge Ambrósio

    Pages 317-349

18. Distributed Deformation: a Finite Element Method

    • Jorge Ambrósio

    Pages 351-374

19. Optimization of Flexible Multibody Systems

    • Jorge Ambrósio

    Pages 375-426

Multibody systems are used extensively in the investigation of mechanical systems including structural and non-structural applications. It can be argued that among all the areas in solid mechanics the methodologies and applications associated to multibody dynamics are those that provide an ideal framework to aggregate d- ferent disciplines. This idea is clearly reflected, e. g. , in the multidisciplinary applications in biomechanics that use multibody dynamics to describe the motion of the biological entities, in finite elements where multibody dynamics provides - werful tools to describe large motion and kinematic restrictions between system components, in system control where the methodologies used in multibody dynamics are the prime form of describing the systems under analysis, or even in many - plications that involve fluid-structure interaction or aero elasticity. The development of industrial products or the development of analysis tools, using multibody dynamics methodologies, requires that the final result of the devel- ments are the best possible within some limitations, i. e. , they must be optimal. Furthermore, the performance of the developed systems must either be relatively insensitive to some of their design parameters or be sensitive in a controlled manner to other variables. Therefore, the sensitivity analysis of such systems is fundamental to support the decision making process. This book presents a broad range of tools for designing mechanical systems ranging from the kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid and flexible multibody systems to their advanced optimization.

• applied mechanics
• computational dynamics
• design
• finite element method
• modeling
• optimization
• sensitivity analysis
• simulation

• Idmec, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Jorge A. C. Ambrósio

• Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

  Peter Eberhard

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