Contact Force Models for Multibody Dynamics
Contact Force Models for Multibody Dynamics

Author: Paulo Flores

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 3319308971

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This book analyzes several compliant contact force models within the context of multibody dynamics, while also revisiting the main issues associated with fundamental contact mechanics. In particular, it presents various contact force models, from linear to nonlinear, from purely elastic to dissipative, and describes their parameters. Addressing the different numerical methods and algorithms for contact problems in multibody systems, the book describes the gross motion of multibody systems by using a two-dimensional formulation based on the absolute coordinates and employs different contact models to represent contact-impact events. Results for selected planar multibody mechanical systems are presented and utilized to discuss the main assumptions and procedures adopted throughout this work. The material provided here indicates that the prediction of the dynamic behavior of mechanical systems involving contact-impact strongly depends on the choice of contact force model. In short, the book provides a comprehensive resource for the multibody dynamics community and beyond on modeling contact forces and the dynamics of mechanical systems undergoing contact-impact events.

Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems with Imperfect Joints
Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems with Imperfect Joints

Author: Paulo Flores

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-10

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 3540743618

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This book presents suitable methodologies for the dynamic analysis of multibody mechanical systems with joints. It contains studies and case studies of real and imperfect joints. The book is intended for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in applied and computational mechanics.

Multibody Dynamics with Unilateral Contacts
Multibody Dynamics with Unilateral Contacts

Author: Friedrich Pfeiffer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2000-11-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9783211833308

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The volume introduces basic concepts necessary for a modern treatment of inequality problems in finite degree of freedom dynamics. Tools from convex analysis, by now well established in non-smooth mechanics, are used to formulate the constitutive equations and impact laws. The lectures cover a broad area of non-smooth dynamics from primal and dual energy functions in variational and differential form to application problems as chimney dampers or vibration conveyors. This includes frictional oscillations with bifurcation scenarios as well as analogies to small displacement quasi-static problems. The course is on an advanced level, designed primarily for postgraduate students, but should also be of value for scientists working on dynamic complementarity problems.

Fundamentals of Multibody Dynamics
Fundamentals of Multibody Dynamics

Author: Farid Amirouche

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-24

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 0817644067

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This textbook – a result of the author’s many years of research and teaching – brings together diverse concepts of the versatile tool of multibody dynamics, combining the efforts of many researchers in the field of mechanics.

Virtual Nonlinear Multibody Systems
Virtual Nonlinear Multibody Systems

Author: Werner Schiehlen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-06-30

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9781402013393

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This book contains an edited versIOn of lectures presented at the NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE on VIRTUAL NONLINEAR MUL TIBODY SYSTEMS which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 23 June to 3 July 2002. It was organized by the Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, in cooperation with the Institute B of Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany. The ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE addressed the state of the art in multibody dynamics placing special emphasis on nonlinear systems, virtual reality, and control design as required in mechatronics and its corresponding applications. Eighty-six participants from twenty-two countries representing academia, industry, government and research institutions attended the meeting. The high qualification of the participants contributed greatly to the success of the ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE in that it promoted the exchange of experience between leading scientists and young scholars, and encouraged discussions to generate new ideas and to define directions of research and future developments. The full program of the ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE included also contributed presentations made by participants where different topics were explored, among them: Such topics include: nonholonomic systems; flexible multibody systems; contact, impact and collision; numerical methods of differential-algebraical equations; simulation approaches; virtual modelling; mechatronic design; control; biomechanics; space structures and vehicle dynamics. These presentations have been reviewed and a selection will be published in this volume, and in special issues of the journals Multibody System Dynamics and Mechanics of Structures and Machines.

Road Vehicle Dynamics
Road Vehicle Dynamics

Author: Georg Rill

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-09-21

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1439897441

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In striving for optimal comfort and safety conditions in road vehicles, today's electronically controlled components provide a range of new options. These are developed and tested using computer simulations in software in the loop or hardware in the loop environments-an advancement that requires the modern automotive engineer to be able to build ba

Multibody Dynamics
Multibody Dynamics

Author: Krzysztof Arczewski

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9048199719

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The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference “Multibody Dynamics 2009” was held in Warsaw, representing the fourth edition of a series which began in Lisbon (2003), and was then continued in Madrid (2005) and Milan (2007), held under the auspices of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). The conference provided a forum for exchanging ideas and results of several topics related to computational methods and applications in multibody dynamics, through the participation of 219 scientists from 27 countries, mostly from Europe but also from America and Asia. This book contains the revised and extended versions of invited conference papers, reporting on the state-of-the-art in the advances of computational multibody models, from the theoretical developments to practical engineering applications. By providing a helpful overview of the most active areas and the recent efforts of many prominent research groups in the field of multibody dynamics, this book can be highly valuable for both experienced researches who want to keep updated with the latest developments in this field and researches approaching the field for the first time.

Multibody Dynamics
Multibody Dynamics

Author: Juan Carlo Garcia Orden

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1402056842

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The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference Multibody Dynamics 2005 was held in Madrid, representing the second edition of a series which began in Lisbon 2003. This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected conference communications, representing the state-of-the-art in the advances on computational multibody models, from the most abstract mathematical developments to practical engineering applications.

Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots
Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots

Author: Abhijit Mahapatra

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9811529531

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This book describes the development of an integrated approach for generating the path and gait of realistic hexapod robotic systems. It discusses in detail locomation with straight-ahead, crab and turning motion capabilities in varying terrains, like sloping surfaces, staircases, and various user-defined rough terrains. It also presents computer simulations and validation using Virtual Prototyping (VP) tools and real-world experiments. The book also explores improving solutions by applying the developed nonlinear, constrained inverse dynamics model of the system formulated as a coupled dynamical problem based on the Newton–Euler (NE) approach and taking into account realistic environmental conditions. The approach is developed on the basis of rigid multi-body modelling and the concept that there is no change in the configuration of the system in the short time span of collisions.