Applied Mechanics with SolidWorks

Applied Mechanics with SolidWorks aims to assist students, designers, engineers, and professionals interested in using SolidWorks to solve practical engineering mechanics problems. It utilizes CAD software, SolidWorks-based, to teach applied mechanics. SolidWorks here is presented as an alternative tool for solving statics and dynamics problems in applied mechanics courses.

Readers can follow the steps described in each chapter to model parts and analyze them. A significant number of pictorial descriptions have been included to guide users through each stage, making it easy for readers to work through the text on their own.

Instructional support videos showing the motions and results of the dynamical systems being analyzed and SolidWorks files for all problems solved are available to lecturers and instructors for free download.

Contents:

• Statics:

• Introduction

  Forces, Vectors, and Resultants

  Moments and Couples

  Two-Dimensional Equilibrium

  Structures and Members

  Three-Dimensional Equilibrium

  Friction

  Centroids and Center of Gravity

  Mass Moment of Inertia

• Dynamics:

• Kinematics: Rectilinear Motion Using SolidWorks

  Kinematics: Angular Motion

  Kinematics: Plane Motion of Mechanisms I

  Kinematics: Plane Motion of Mechanisms II

  Kinetics: Inertia Force and Torque

  Kinetics: Work and Energy

  Kinetics: Impulse and Momentum

  Appendix: Resources for Applied Mechanics Journals

Readership: University and college students undertaking mechanical, aerospace, electromechanical, engineering or applied mechanics programs.
Key Features:

• Uses SolidWorks to solve problems in statics
• Uses SolidWorks to solve problems in dynamics
• Extensive use of figures to enhance understanding of concepts covered and includes AVIvideo files for instructors and students to show motions and results of dynamical systems being analyzed