Rigid Body Dynamics of Mechanisms 2

1. Introduction.- 2. Model equations in symbolic DAE and DE form.- 3. Planar models of an unconstrained rigid body.- 4. Planar models of a rigid body under absolute constraints.- 5. Planar models of two rigid bodies under constrained motion.- 6. Spatial models of an unconstrained rigid body.- 7. Spatial models of a rigid body under constrained motion.- 8. Spatial mechanisms with several rigid bodies.- A. Appendix.- A.1 Alternative representation of the spring and damper forces of Section 3.2.- A.2 Auxiliary computations and results associated with the mechanism of Section 8.3.- A.2.1 Explicit form of the constraint equations of the massless links.- A.2.2 Coefficients of the kinematics of the electrical drives.- A.2.3 Computation of the transformation matrix of the forces of the electrical drives.- A.3 Auxiliary computations associated with the example of Section 8.4.- A.3.2 Auxiliary computations used in Section 8.4.9.- References.- List of Figures.

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"The second volume, subtitled Applications, begins with a chapter summarizing the methodology for deriving the governing DAEs for a general mechanical system and mapping these into DEs. ... The book has a number of nice features. ... Multiple and comprehensive illustrations are provided throughout the manuscript, ranging from very simple diagrams to illustrate the basic concepts (such as a moment vector) to photographs and engineering drawings of complex machinery ... . the manuscript makes for a desirable reference work in any mechanician's library." (Inna Sharf, Mathematical Reviews, 2005 e)