Flexible Multibody Systems Models Using Composite Materials Components

Simulation of Flexible Multibody Systems Using Linear Graph Theory

This chapter provides a general description of a variational graph-theoretic formulation for simulation of flexible multibody systems (FMS) which includes a brief review of linear graph principles required to formulate this algorithm. The system is represented by a linear graph, in which nodes represent reference frames on flexible bodies, and edges represent components that connect these frame...

Modeling Intermittent Contact for Flexible Multibody Systems

This paper consists of two parts. The first part presents a complementarity based recursive scheme to model intermittent contact for flexible multibody systems. A recursive divide and conquer framework is used to explicitly impose the bilateral constraints in the entire system. The presented approach is an extension of the hybrid scheme for rigid multibody systems to allow for small deformation...

Numerical Analysis of Flexible Multibody Systems

Mechanical Multibody Systems with Deformable Components

The multibody system approach provides enhanced models of vehicles , robots, and air-and spacecrafts. Mixed systems consisting of both rigid and deformable bodies are aimed at growing demands for reened simulation. A basic modeling framework for this class of mechanical systems is presented which covers also inelastic material behavior. Moreover, the Diierential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs) obtai...

A Class of Stabilizing Controllers for Flexible Multibody Systems

This paper considers the problem of controlling a class of nonlinear multibody flexible space systems consisting of a flexible central body to which a number of articulated appendages are attached. Collocated actuators and sensors are assumed, and global asymptotic stability of such systems is established under a nonlinear dissipative control law. The stability is shown to be robust to unmodele...