Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization
This book presents a broad range of tools for designing mechanical systems, including kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid and flexible multibody systems and their advanced optimization. The methodologies are presented from their fundamentals to the point where it is possible to build and analyze complex models of machines, vehicles or biomechanics. Design sensitivity and optimization methods are presented and applied to problems of design, reliability or parameter identification in cases...
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This book presents a broad range of tools for designing mechanical systems, including kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid and flexible multibody systems and their advanced optimization. The methodologies are presented from their fundamentals to the point where it is possible to build and analyze complex models of machines, vehicles or biomechanics. Design sensitivity and optimization methods are presented and applied to problems of design, reliability or parameter identification in cases of practical importance. The book is organized in a tutorial manner providing a comprehensive summary of current work in mechanical systems using advanced optimization methods, being suitable to students, researchers or industry engineers. Through applications to the design of machine components, transportation vehicles for ride, maneuverability and crashworthiness, or biomechanics, the reader can appraise the multidisciplinary aspects of the methodologies presented.
Planar Multibody Systems.- Spatial Multibody Systems.- Synthesis of Mechanisms.- Differential-Geometric Aspects of Constrained System Dynamics.- Dependent Variable Formulations.- Independent Variable Formulation.- Other Useful Modeling and Simulation Techniques.- Sensitivity Analysis: Linear Static Spring Systems.- Sensitivity Analysis: Nonlinear Static Spring Systems.- Sensitivity Analysis: Generalized Coordinate Kinematic Systems.- Optimization of Mechanical Systems.- Using Augmented Particle Swarm Optimization for Constrained Problems in Engineering.- Optimization of Mechatronic Systems Using the Software Package NEWOPT/AIMS.- Topology Optimized Synthesis of Planar Kinematic Rigid Body Mechanisms.- Grid-Based Topology Optimization of Rigid Body Mechanisms.- Lumped Deformations: a Plastic Hinge Approach.- Distributed Deformation: a Finite Element Method.- Optimization of Flexible Multibody Systems.
