ME 469 - Application of Dynamics in Engineering

Instructor:

Professor Brian C. Fabien

Office: 

206 Mechanical Engineering Building

Phone:

(206) 543-6915

Email:

fabien@u.washington.edu

Office hours:

Wed 9:00 am - 12 noon, and by appointment

Internet:

http://abs-5.me.washingon.edu/me469/me469.html


Textbook: Lecture notes/handouts


B. C. Fabien, Analytical System Dynamics: Modeling and simulation, Springer, 2009. 


Matlab tutorial

Matlab plotting tutorial

Slider crank mechanism  slider run_slider file1 file2 file3 file4 file5


Extra problems: problems1  problems2 problems3

Implicit differential equation solver: ride.m ride_options.m ride_set_option.m printf.m

To use the function ride, put the files ride.m, ride_options.m, ride_set_option.m, and printf.m
in the same directory as your simulation model m-files.


References:


    Richard A. Layton, Principles of analytical system dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

    J. H. Williams, Jr. Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

    D. T. Greenwood, Principles of Dynamics, Prentice-Hall, 1988.

    E. J. Haug, Intermediate Dynamics, Prentice-Hall, 1992.

    L. Meirovitch, Methods of Analytical Dynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1970.

  

Class schedule: 


    Lectures: MW 1:30 - 2:20, Th 3:30 - 5:20 (MEB 237)


Grading: 


      Homework: 25%, Exam 1: 25%, Exam 2: 25%, Final 25%.


    Exam Schedule: All exams will be closed book and closed notes.


    Exam 1: Thursday Oct 29

    Exam 2: Thursday, Nov. 19

    Final Exam: Monday, Dec. 14; 2:30 pm - 4:20 pm (MEB 237)

  

Course syllabus:


      Kinematics

       Kinematics of a point and a rigid body moving in space.

       Kinematic structure of mechanisms and machines (robots).

       Joint constraints.

       Kinematic analysis of planar mechanisms

          Four-bar, slider crank, Scotch yoke.

       Kinematic analysis of spatial mechanisms

          Spherical four-bar, spatial slider crank, R-P robot.


    Lagrange's Equation

       Generalized coordinates

       Virtual displacements, virtual work

       Derivation of Lagrange's equation for unconstrained systems

       Application of Lagrange's equation

          1 DOF oscillator, 2 DOF oscillator, simple pendulum, double pendulum, 1/4 car model

          1/2 car model, unbalanced rotor, symmetric top, flywheel


    Constrained Systems

       Lagrange's equation for holonomic and nonholonomic constraints

       Application of Lagrange's equation

          Slider crank mechanism, four-bar mechanism, rolling coin


    Simulation

       Analytical solution of ordinary differential equations

       Numerical solution of ODEs

           Explicit and implicit Euler method

           Explicit and implicit Runge-Kutta methods

           Backward differentiation method

       Differential-Algebraic equations

       Implicit differential equations


Week 1:   Chapters 1

9/30 Introduction to modeling and system dynamics (Section 1.1)
10/1 Fundamental variables, energy storage, energy dissipation (Section 1.1 - 1.2)

Week 2:   Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

10/5 Energy dissipation & transforming elements  (Section 1.2)
10/7 Effort sources Paynter's diagram
10/8 Planar Mechanisms (Section 2.2)

Week 3:   Chapter 2

10/12  -
10/14  Networks (Section 2.3)
10/15  Mechanism/network analysis

Week 4:   Chapter 3

10/19 Review HW 1
10/21 Review HW 2
10/22 Virtual work/Lagrange's Equation (Section 3.2)

Week 5:   Chapter 3

10/26 Mechanical system models (Section 3.3.1)
10/28 Electrical system models/Fluid system models (Section 3.3.2/3.3.3)
10/29 Exam 1

Week 6:   Chapter 4

11/2 Review Exam 1
11/4 Constraint classification (Section 4.1)
11/5 Displacement constraints (Section 4.2)

Week 7:   Chapter  4

11/9 Flow constraints (Section 4.3), Effort constraints (Section 4.4)
11/11 Veterans Day
11/12 Differential-algebaric equations (Section 4.5)

Week 8:   Chapter 4

11/16 Constrained systems
11/18 Homework 4 review
11/19 Exam 2

Week 9:   Chapter 6

11/23 Review Exam 2
11/25 System analysis (Section 6.1)
11/26 Thanksgiving

Week 10:   Chapter 6    

11/30 System simulation (Section 6.2)
12/2 First-order and second-order model simulation (Section 6.2.3)
12/3 Nonlinear system simulation (Section 6.2.3)

Week 11:   Chapter 6

12/7 Mechanism simulation (Section 6.2.3)
12/9 Control system simulation (Section 6.2.3)
12/10 Homework 5 review

 

Homework problems:


Homework 1: Due 10/12, Chapter 1, Problems: 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 16a, 16e, 16f, 16i, 16l SOLUTION

Homework 2: Due 10/19, Chapter 2, Problems: 12, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 16, 17, 19, 20 (No plots required for problem 20)

Homework 3: Due 10/26, Chapter 3, Problems: 3, 4, 5, 12, 15, 17, 20 SOLUTION

Homework 4: Due 11/16, Chapter 4, Problems: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d SOLUTION

Homework 5: Due 12/9, Chapter 6, Problems: 4, 5, 6, 9