Handbook on Stiffness & Damping in Mechanical Design

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This expanded and fully updated Handbook contains new results and adds some significant modifications, most notably a new section on: Negative Stiffness and Damping; which is critical for understanding dynamic processes in mechanical systems. The book will be useful for practicing engineers working in the field of machine design, design of machine elements, machine dynamics, mechatronics, robotics and precision engineering. It will also be a useful reference for educators, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

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Passive Vibration Isolation

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Provides background theory and practical solutions for engineers that face vibration problems causing equipment failure, downtime, and extra maintenance costs. It emphasizes proven, effective techniques that are not yet widely used on equipment for microelectronics, MEMS, and nanotechnology, as well as process plants, power generation, oil, gas, petrochemicals, and other industries. Vibration isolation is a vibration control technique in which the source of vibration excitation and the object to be protected are separated by an auxiliary system comprising special devices called vibration isolators or vibration isolating mounts. The four chapters of the book describe: basic analytical tools for designing such systems principles and criteria for assigning principal parameters (natural frequencies and damping values) necessary for successful functioning of passive vibration isolation systems for major groups of objects (vibration-sensitive objects, vibration-generating objects, general purpose machinery) static and dynamic characteristics of the most widely used materials for vibration isolators basic designs of vibration isolators for various applications Addressing practitioners, the book offers problems and solutions relevant not only to the isolation of stationary sensitive equipment, but also to civil engineering and transport applications. Today, tolerances on acceptable levels of vibration are becoming more stringent, just as the number and intensity of vibration sources is increasing - for example, as machine operating speeds become faster, or cutting inserts in machine tools improve to allow heavier cuts. Passive Vibration Isolation enables practitioners to make better informed and more effective choices when solving vibration problems.

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Passive Vibration Isolation Hardcover 2003 Eugene I. Rivin

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Handbook on Stiffness & Damping in Mechanical Design by Eugene I. Rivin (2010) Hardcover

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Passive Vibration Isolation by Rivin, Eugene I. (2003) Hardcover

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Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ

(The revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological...)

The revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological innovation called TRIZ is increasingly being adopted by leading corporations around the world to enhance their competitive position. This book explains how the TRIZ methodology harnesses creative principles extracted from thousands of successful patented inventions to help find more innovative solutions to design problems. Written for practicing engineers, product managers, technology managers and engineering students, it demonstrates how to use TRIZ tools for conceptual development of novel technologies, products and manufacturing processes.

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Mechanical Design of Robots

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The first book to deal exclusively with the mechanical design of a robotic system, this valuable guide shows how an educated and innovative approach to me-chanical design can improve robot performance and efficiency. The results are advanced sensory and communications abilities and increased payload capacity and flexibility. Based on a wide range of current research in robotics, the book was written by a recognized authority in the field who combines an analytical approach with a strong applications orientation. The book gives you practical, problem-solving guidance as well as an overview of theory. The analytical techniques and design solutions presented help you develop better systems ... upgrade performance ... identify and solve problems ... utilize both conventional and innovative design approaches ... and avoid costly design and debugging errors. In addition to outlining the basic parameters of robots and their structural configurations, the book covers these important topics: Techniques for analyzing and optimizing structural characteristics such as stiffness, inertia, and damping of robot manipulators Comparative analysis of basic mechanical units such as guideways and bearings Practical approaches to analyzing dynamic performance and deviations from programmed paths Ways to improve dynamic behavior In-depth examination of wrist designs, a topic which has previously received no comprehensive treatment Mechanical and electrical engineers, manufacturers, designers, and students will welcome the book, as will users of robots who often need to modify design features of off-the-shelf manipulators.

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Stiffness and Damping in Mechanical Design

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Offers designers and users of mechanical systems an overview of structural stiffness and damping and their critical roles in mechanical design. The text assesses the relationship between stiffness and damping parameters in mechanical systems and structural materials. An accompanying disk contains detailed analyses of stiffness- and damping-critical systems.

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