In the present work, an introduction to the contact phenomena in multibody systems is made.
The different existing approaches are described, together with their most distinctive features …

This review article focuses on the problems related to numerical simulation of finite
dimensional nonsmooth multibody mechanical systems. The rigid body dynamical case is …

Thank you for opening the third edition of this monograph. The first edition [202] was
published in 1996 in the Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series (vol. 220) …

This book concerns the numerical simulation of dynamical systems whose trajec-ries may
not be differentiable everywhere. They are named nonsmooth dynamical systems. They …

Rigid-body dynamics with unilateral contact is a good approximation for a wide range of
everyday phenomena, from the operation of car brakes to walking to rock slides. It is also of …

This paper introduces and studies the class of differential variational inequalities (DVIs) in a
finite-dimensional Euclidean space. The DVI provides a powerful modeling paradigm for …

A general methodology for dynamic modeling and analysis of multibody systems with
multiple clearance joints is presented and discussed in this paper. The joint components that …

As one of the oldest natural sciences, mechanics occupies a certain pioneering role in
determining the development of exact sciences through its interaction with mathematics. As …

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss a method for a dynamic modeling and analysis
of multibody systems with translational clearance joints. The method is based on the …

This paper presents a numerical method for interactive (real-time) simulations, which
considerably improves the accuracy of the response of heterogeneous soft-tissue models …