The status and some recent developments in computational modeling of flexible multibody
systems are summarized. Discussion focuses on a number of aspects of flexible multibody …

This paper reviews different formulations to account for the stressstiffening or geometric
stiffening effect arising from deflections largeenough to cause significant changes in the …

In the early eighties, the author and co-workers created and further developed the natural
coordinates to describe the motion of 2-D and 3-D multibody systems. Natural coordinates …

Introducing internal damping in multibody system simulations is important as real-life
systems usually exhibit this type of energy dissipation mechanism. When using an inertial …

To perform the mechanical design of a machine through computer‐aided techniques, at
least three main different products should be used: a CAD software, to model the parts of the …

The determination of particular reaction forces in the analysis of redundantly constrained
multibody systems requires the consideration of the stiffness distribution in the system. This …

This paper introduces the novel flexible natural coordinates formulation to model small‐
deformation multibody dynamics. The main contribution of this work is its resulting constant …

For the transient response analysis of a flexible slider-crank mechanism, the coordinate
partitioning scheme and the Udwadia–Kalaba formulation are herein compared. The …

Numerical methods for the dynamics of flexible multi-body systems havebeen developed by
the related scientific and technical community duringthe last two or three decades. However …

One of the characteristics of floating frame of reference (FFR) formulations for flexible
multibody dynamics is the fact that the inertia terms are highly non-linear. At every time-step …