Designing experiments using digital fabrication in structural dynamics

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Defense date2017-07
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In engineering, traditional approaches aimed at teaching concepts of dynamics to engineering students include the study of a dense yet sequential theoretical development of proofs and exercises. Structural dynamics are seldom taught experimentally in laboratories since these facilities should be provided with expensive equipment such as wave generators, data-acquisition systems, and heavily wired deployments with sensors. In this paper, the design of an experimental experience in the classroom based upon digital fabrication and modeling tools related to structural dynamics is presented. In particular, all experimental deployments are conceived with low-cost, open-source equipment. The hardware includes Arduino-based open-source electronics whereas the software is based upon object-oriented open-source codes for the development of physical simulations. The set of experiments and the physical simulations are reproducible and scalable in classroom-based environments.
CitationChacon, R., Oller, S. Designing experiments using digital fabrication in structural dynamics. "Journal of professional issues in engineering education and practice", Juliol 2017, vol. 143, núm. 3, p. 05016011-1-05016011-9.
ISSN1052-3928
Publisher versionhttp://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000315
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