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Elastic Multibody Dynamics - A Direct Ritz Approach (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Elastic Multibody Dynamics - A Direct Ritz Approach (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 35
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1. Background This textbook is an introduction to and exploration
of a number of core topics in the ?eld of applied mechanics.
Mechanics, in both its theoretical and applied contexts, is, like
all scienti?c endeavors, a human construct. It re?ects the
personalities, thoughts, errors, and successes of its creators. We
therefore provide some personal information about each of these
individuals when their names arise for the ?rst time in this book.
This should enable the reader to piece together a
cultural-historical picture of the ?eld s origins and development.
This does not mean that we are writing history. Nevertheless, some
remarks putting individuals and ideas in context are necessary in
order to make clear what we are speaking about - and what we are
not speaking about. At the end of the 19th century, technical
universities were established eve- where in Europe in an almost
euphoric manner. But the practice of technical mechanics itself, as
one of the basics of technical development, was in a desolate
state, due largely to the refusal of its practitioners to recognize
the in?uence of kinetics on motion. They were correct to the extend
that then current mechanical systems moved with small velocities
where kinetics does not play a signi?cant role. But they had failed
to keep up with developments in the science underlying their craft
and were unable to keep pace with the speeds of such systems as the
steam engine.
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