Analytical and Computational Dynamics I

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 440. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Modern analytical rigid body dynamics equation formulation and computational solution techniques applied to mechanical multibody systems. Kinematics of motion generalized coordinates and speeds, analytical and computational determination of inertia properties, generalized forces, Gibb’s function, Routhian, Kanes’s equations, Hamilton’s principle, Lagrange’s equations holonomic and nonholonomic constraints, constraint processing, computational simulation.