System Dynamics for Engineering Students

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.

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