Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Symbolic Computation Equipment

该奖项提供的设备将由RP.I.的几名教员和他们的研究助理使用，以进行结构动力学领域的一些研究项目。利用计算机符号处理来表述和分析高度复杂的非线性运动微分方程。主要研究项目包括直升机旋翼叶片动力学、直升机旋翼-机身相互作用、梁和梁状结构构件的非线性弯-弯-扭动力学及其在机械臂和具有移动质量的系统中的应用、复合材料结构的泰勒以及机械臂中的逆运动学问题。

The equipment provided by this award is to be used by several faculty members and their research assistants at R.P.I. to conduct a number of research projects in the area of Structural Dynamics. Use is made of Computerized Symbolic Manipulation to formulate and to analyze highly complex nonlinear differential equations of motion. The main research projects include the dynamics of helicopter rotor blades, helicopter rotor-fuselage interactions, nonlinear flexural-flexural-torsional dynamics of beams and beam-like structural members with application to robotic manipulators and systems with moving masses, tayloring of composite structures and inverse kinematics problems in robotic manipulators.