Fundamentals of Multibody Dynamics: Theory and Applications

Because of its versatility in analyzing a broad range of applications, multibody dynamics has grown in the past two decades to be an important tool for designing, prototyping, and simulating complex articulated mechanical systems. This textbook--a result of the author's many years of research and teaching--brings together diverse concepts of dynamics, combining the efforts of many researchers in the field of mechanics. A particular strength of the work is its use of matrices to generate kinematic coefficients associated with the formulation of the governing equations of motion.

Junior/senior undergraduates and first-year graduate engineering students taking a course in dynamics, physics, control, robotics, or biomechanics will find this a useful book with a strong computer orientation towards the subject. The work may also be used as a self-study resource or research reference for practitioners in the above-mentioned fields.