2208. Mass Distribution: Its Importance, Challenges and Process, Made Easy
$20.00
SAWE Members get a $200 store credit each year.*
*Store credit coupon available at checkout, click the button in your shopping cart to apply the coupon.
Not applicable to SAWE textbooks and current conference technical papers.
Paper
Abstract
This paper discusses the important role that mass distribution plays in the static and dynamic performance characteristics of mechanical systems, the challenge in predicting it with reasonable accuracy and how weight engineers are duly qualified to provide this critical analysis. The paper than covers the process of performing mass distribution analysis and how the latest computer technology can make what was once an arduous task a ”piece of cake”. The bottom line being, once a good mass model is established, the computer will do all the work and the engineer simply needs to specify how the data is to be sliced.
