Course Number:  MECH 7630
Course Title:   Mechanical Impact
Credit Hours:  3

Coordinator: Dan B. Marghitu, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, 109 Ross Hall, phone: 844-3335
Office hours: 010:00-11:00 MW

  Topics:

PARTICLE DYNAMICS  text (pdf)  figures (pdf)
HW: particle on spring (pdf) figures (pdf) MATLAB programs: main , equation.m , events.m
Project: Impact of a sphere with a flat rigid surface (pdf)  Program (Mathematica)   Program (pdf)

IMPACT OF  A COMPOUND PENDULUM WITH A SPRING
text (pdf)  figure (pdf)  program (Mathematica) (pdf)

IMPACT OF  A COMPOUND PENDULUM WITH A FLAT SURFACE
figure (pdf)  program  (Mathematica)  (pdf)
MATLAB files: main program, event0.m,  evente.m,  eventep.m,  eventr.m

IMPACT OF A DOUBLE PENDULUM (pdf)
Newton Euler equations of motion: matlab program, eventRRe, eventRRs, eventRRr
Kane's dynamical equations and Lagrange's equations of motion (pdf) figure (pdf)

Project: Write a MATLAB program for Kane's dynamical equations and Lagrange's equations of motion

PARTICLE IMPACT text (pdf)  figures (pdf)

RIGID BODY IMPACT text (pdf)  figures (pdf)

LAGRAGE'S EQUATIONS OF MOTION (unconstrained and constrained system)

KANE'S DYNAMICAL EQUATIONS

IMPACT WITH FRICTION OF RIGID BARS

IMPACT WITH FRICTION OF FLEXIBLE BARS

IMPACT OF CURVED BARS

IMPACT WITH MOMENT OF ROLLING FRICTION

LAGRAGE'S EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR SYSTEMS WITH UNILATERAL CONSTRAINTS

STUDY OF IMPACT USING DISTRIBUTIONS THEORY



 
 

A practical introduction to Mathematica
Working Model 2D
 
 

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