Barbudenge
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Authorship and themes

About Barbudenge

Barbudenge brings together materials on gears, mechanisms, machine elements and mechanical engineering teaching tools. This page explains who publishes the content, what topics are covered and how to get in touch.

Who publishes

Artur Henrique de Freitas Avelar

Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ), working in teaching, modeling, mechanisms, mechanical transmissions and development of computational tools for teaching support.

The site brings together adapted class notes, technical articles and support pages linked to academic and educational projects.

Purpose of the website

Technical content with practical utility

The proposal is to bring together explanations, figures, equations and usage guides that help students, teachers and professionals to better understand certain topics in mechanical engineering.

The texts published here prioritize conceptual clarity, didactic application and direct connection with real analysis and design problems.

Website themes

What you find here

Barbudenge's content is organized around four main fronts:

  • original technical articles on planetary gears, cams and mechanisms;
  • usage guides for tools and projects linked to the portal, such as Engrenarium;
  • quick reference material such as glossaries and frequently asked questions;
  • institutional context for projects linked to LASME/UFSJ.

When a page points to an external software, laboratory or repository, it explains what technical problem that resource helps to study and in what situation it can be used.

How content is produced

Publication criteria

Original content

The texts are written specifically for this portal. When there is reference to books, tools or external pages, the objective is to contextualize or complement the material, not to reproduce generic descriptions or excerpts from third parties.

Didactic emphasis

The pages seek to explain concepts, show relationships between variables, indicate practical uses and point out limitations. The focus is on helping the reader learn something concrete, not just taking them to another website.

Gradual update

The portal is progressively updated. New articles, explanatory pages, and supporting materials are added as they mature in classroom, research, and software development.

Transparency

Institutional information, contact and privacy policy are publicly available. The aim is to make it clear who maintains the website, what its purpose is and how visitors can get in touch.

Related projects

How the portal connects to other resources

Barbudenge also serves as a support point for related projects, but each of them has a different function:

  • Engrenarium: software and simulator aimed at visualizing and analyzing planetary gears. On the portal, it now appears inside the projects page alongside Engrenarium Web and Interactive Powertrain.
  • LASME/UFSJ: institutional page of the laboratory, used to present academic context and links with teaching, research and development.
  • GitHub: repositories and source code related to projects published or maintained by the author.

This distinction is important: the website does not replace the software, the laboratory or the repository. It explains the functioning and technical use of these resources so that the visitor knows when each of them is useful.

Contact

Public contact information