Energy Harvesting Technologies provides a cohesive overview of the fundamentals and current developments in the field of energy harvesting. In a well-organized structure, this volume discusses basic principles for the design and fabrication of bulk and MEMS based vibration energy systems, theory and[...]

This supplement provides all of the necessary instructions to use Mathcad Student or Professional software to aid the reader in solving homework problems. It is keyed heavily to the accompanying dynamics text and works through many of the sample problems in detail. While this supplement suggests way[...]

Given the current energy crisis and green agenda, the transformation of vibrations into electric energy through the use of piezoelectric devices is an exciting and rapidly developing area of research.[...]

Focusing on the conceptual understanding of mechanics, this text addresses developments in the methods of analyzing mechanics problems. It provides transition material to higher level courses. It presents sample problems and the use of computational software (MathCAD, MATLAB, Mathematica and Maple) [...]