Applied Dynamics

Werner Schiehlen is Professor Emeritus of Mechanics and Past Head of the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics of the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. He has published widely on topics such as multibody system dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, random vibrations, optimization, contact problems, biomechanics, mechatronics, robotics, and vehicle dynamics. He has won many awards and honours and served his field in many capacities in Germany and in the rest of the world. He is one of the Editors in Chief of the Springer journal Multibody System Dynamics.Peter Eberhard is also a Professor at the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics of the University of Stuttgart, originally studying under Professor Schiehlen. Professor Eberhard also has (co-)authored many works, has international experience, and serves as board member for acclaimed journals.Together they developed the course material presented here, continually improving and adapting it to new insights and current requirements, first in German, now published in English for a global readership.

• From the Contents: Introduction.- Purpose of applied dynamics.- Contribution of analytical mechanics.- Basics of kinematics.- Free systems.- Basics of dynamics.- Dynamics of a point.- Principles of mechanics.- Principle of virtual work.- Multibody systems.- Local equations of motion.- Finite-Elemente systems.- Local equations of motion.- Continuous systems.- Local equations of motion.- State equations of mechanical systems.- Nonlinear state equations.- Numerical equations.- Integration of nonlinear differential equations.

From the book reviews: "The book is devoted to technical dynamics which has now many applications in science, in mechanical engineering, in transport vehicle and control problems. ... The book is addressed to graduate students, engineers and researches." (Bozhidar Cheshankov, zbMATH 1306.70001, 2015)