Flexible Multibody Dynamics

• Main Author: Bauchau, O. A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 176
• Subjects: Engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Continuum mechanics.; Automotive engineering.; Automotive Engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

The author developed this text over many years, teaching graduate courses in advanced dynamics and flexible multibody dynamics at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology.   The book presents a unified treatment of rigid body dynamics, analytical d...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Basic tools and concepts: 1. Vectors and tensors
• 2. Coordinate Systems
• 3. Basic Principles
• 4. The Geometric Description of Rotation
• Part II: Rigid Body Dynamics: 5. Kinematics of Rigid Bodies
• 6. Kinetics of Rigid Bodies
• Part III: Concepts of Analytical Dynamics: 7. Basic Concepts of Analytical Dynamics
• 8. Variational and Energy Principles
• Part IV: Constrained Dynamical Systems: 9. Constrained Systems: Preliminaries
• 10. Constrained Systems: classical formulations
• 11. Constrained systems: advanced formulations
• 12. Constrained systems: numerical methods
• Part V: Parameterization of rotation and motion: 13. Parameterization of rotation
• 14. Parameterization of motion
• Part VI: Flexible multibody dynamics: 15. Flexible multibody systems: preliminaries
• 16. Formulation of flexible elements
• 17. Finite element tools
• 18. Mathematical tools
• References
• Index.