This book presents a collection of fifteen high quality selected papers from the 2007 edition of the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference in Multibody Dynamics, which was held June 25-28 at the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy.
The purpose of this collection is to provide the international multibody dynamics community with an up-to-date view on the state of the art in this rapidly growing field of research which now plays a central role in the modeling, analysis, simulation and optimization of mechanical systems in a variety of fields and for a wide range of industrial applications.
The book will be of interest to engineers working on any one of the many aspects of modern multibody dynamics who want to be informed by some of the leading experts in the field on the principal research directions, recent achievements and the most challenging successful applications.
Author(s): Carlo L. Bottasso
Series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 252
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Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 6
Physiological Methods to Solve the Force-Sharing Problem in Biomechanics......Page 9
Multi-Step Forward Dynamic Gait Simulation......Page 32
A Fast NCP Solver for Large Rigid-Body Problems with Contacts, Friction, and Joints......Page 51
Solution Procedures for Maneuvering Multibody Dynamics Problems for Vehicle Models of Varying Complexity......Page 62
Synthesis and Optimization of Flexible Mechanisms......Page 85
The Reverse Method of Lines in Flexible Multibody Dynamics......Page 98
A Nonlinear Finite Element Framework for Flexible Multibody Dynamics: Rotationless Formulation and Energy-Momentum Conserving Discretization......Page 122
A Second Order Extension of the Generalized–α Method for Constrained Systems in Mechanics......Page 145
Kinematical Optimization of Closed-Loop Multibody Systems......Page 161
A Comparison of Three Different Linear Order Multibody Dynamics Algorithms in Limited Parallel Computing Environments......Page 182
Linear Dual Algebra Algorithms and their Application to Kinematics......Page 208
A Memory Based Communication in the Co-simulation of Multibody and Finite Element Codes for Pantograph-Catenary Interaction Simulation......Page 231
