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DYNAMIC MODELING AND CONTROL OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
THIRD EDITION
This textbook is ideal for a course in Engineering System Dynamics and Controls.
The work is a comprehensive treatment of the analysis of lumped-parameter
physical systems. Starting with a discussion of mathematical models in general,
and ordinary differential equations, the book covers input–output and state-
space models, computer simulation, and modeling methods and techniques in
mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid domains. Frequency-domain methods,
transfer functions, and frequency response are covered in detail. The book con-
cludes with a treatment of stability, feedback control (PID, lag–lead, root locus),
and an introduction to discrete-time systems. This new edition features many
new and expanded sections on such topics as Solving Stiff Systems, Opera-
tional Amplifiers, Electrohydraulic Servovalves, Using MATLAB
®
with Trans-
fer Functions, Using MATLAB with Frequency Response, MATLAB Tutorial,
and an expanded Simulink
®
Tutorial. The work has 40 percent more end-of-
chapter exercises and 30 percent more examples.
Bohdan T. Kulakowski, Ph.D. (1942–2006) was Professor of Mechanical Engi-
neering at Pennsylvania State University. He was an internationally recognized
expert in automatic control systems, computer simulations and control of indus-
trial processes, systems dynamics, vehicle–road dynamic interaction, and trans-
portation systems. His fuzzy-logic algorithm for avoiding skidding accidents was
recognized in 2000 by Discover magazine as one of its top 10 technological inno-
vations of the year.
John F. Gardner is Chair of the Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Depart-
ment at Boise State University, where he has been a faculty member since 2000.
Before his appointment at Boise State, he was on the faculty of Pennsylvania
State University in University Park, where his research in dynamic systems and
controls led to publications in diverse fields from railroad freight car dynamics to
adaptive control of artificial hearts. He pursues research in modeling and control
of engineering and biological systems.
J. Lowen Shearer (1921–1992) received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology. At MIT, between 1950 and 1963, he served as the group
leader in the Dynamic Analysis & Control Laboratory, and as a member of the
mechanical engineering faculty. From 1963 until his retirement in 1985, he was on
the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Profes-
sor Shearer was a member of ASME’s Dynamic Systems and Control Division
and received that group’s Rufus Oldenberger Award in 1983. In addition, he
received the Donald P. Eckman Award (ISA, 1965), and the Richards Memorial
Award (ASME, 1966).
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