Accession Number:
AD0755166
Title:
SCEPTRE Translator Feasibility Study.
Descriptive Note:
Final technical rept.,
Corporate Author:
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA TAMPA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1973-01-23
Pagination or Media Count:
80.0
Abstract:
The basic objectives of the research are to investigate the feasibility of and determine the best input format for a SCEPTRE translator capable of providing a point-to-point input of one-dimensional mechanical systems to the SCEPTRE compiler. The objectives have been realized by studying the SCEPTRE program. The compiler accepts point-to-point or node-to-node input of electrical elements of resistance, capacitance, inductance, voltage sources, and current sources. The ability of SCEPTRE to formulate differential equations from a topological description of an electrical circuit and to solve these equations with such programming ease on the users part, prompted the search for electrical analogs with point-to-point mechanical systems for direct input through a SCEPTRE translator. The search was directed toward one-dimensional systems since electrical circuits processed by SCEPTRE are actually only one-dimensional current flow networks i.e. current can flow in only one dimension, thus current is a scalar quantity. With this approach in mind, the mathematical formulation of an acceptable mechanical to electrical here-in denoted mechano-electrical analog is established. Author
Descriptors:
- (*COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
- *COMPILERS)
- (*ELECTRICAL NETWORKS
- MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS)
- (*SPRINGS
- EQUATIONS OF MOTION)
- TRANSFORMATIONS
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
- TRANSFER FUNCTIONS
- MATHEMATICAL MODELS
- DATA PROCESSING
- KINEMATICS
- STATICS
- DYNAMICS
- GRAPHICS
- THERMAL RADIATION
- TRANSIENTS
- INTERFACES
- FEASIBILITY STUDIES
Subject Categories:
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Computer Programming and Software
- Mechanics