Interactive simulations for the course Meccanica Applicata alle Macchine (Applied Mechanics in Machine Design), Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Università di Pisa.
Browser-based simulations for nonlinear dynamics and applied mechanics. Click any card to open the simulator directly — no installation required.
Pendulum animation comparing nonlinear and linearized dynamics. Time evolution, potential energy curve, and phase portrait.
Pendulum animation with adjustable damping. Explore how energy dissipation reshapes the transient response and phase portrait.
Simple nonlinear oscillator showing a stable limit cycle.
Simple nonlinear oscillator showing an unstable limit cycle.
Two masses on perpendicular guides linked by a rod, with spring and damper. Dynamics and phase portraits with different parametrizations.
Oscillating system with two degrees of freedom: dynamics and phase-space projections.
Oscillating system with three degrees of freedom: linearized dynamics.
Mass-spring-damper system with platform motion. Dynamic Amplification Factor and Phase for absolute and relative motion.
T-shape with disk. Coupled/decoupled 2-DOF dynamics depending on parameters.
Mass–spring on a moving belt with friction.
How a brand-new clutch evolves toward a run-in state: pressure profile and wear-rate analysis.
T-rod driven by slider-crank.
Exercise 8.21 — GeoGebra worksheet: ring with distributed friction on the rim (opens in a new tab).
Exercise 8.22 — motion of a ring with friction.
Exercise 8.20 — GeoGebra worksheet: graphical solution (opens in a new tab).
Clothoid arcs. Speed, lateral acceleration and jerk profile for road cars.
Clothoid arcs. Speed, lateral acceleration and jerk profile for racing cars.
Application of Reynolds Equation for thin film lubrications.
Application of Reynolds Equation for thin film lubrications.
Plate on an eccentric disk.
What I cannot create, I do not understand. — Richard Feynman