The ability of a multibody dynamic model to accurately predict the response of a physical system relies heavily on the use of appropriate system parameters in the mathematical model. Thus, the identification of unknown system parameters (or parameters that are known only approximately) is of fundamental importance. If experimental measurements are available for a mechanical system, the paramete...

The a posteriori error evaluation based on differential approximation of a finitedifference scheme and adjoint equations is addressed. The differential approximation is composed of primal equations and a local truncation error determined by a Taylor series in Lagrange form. This approach provides the feasibility of both refining the solution and using the Holder inequality for asymptotic boundi...

School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332 This paper describes a new technique for deriving dynamic equations of motion for serial chain and tree topology mechanisms with common nonholonomic constraints. For each type of nonholonomic constraint, the Boltzmann-Hamel equations produce a concise set of dynamic equations. These equations are similar to ...

In this paper, the system of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind is investigated by using a modified degenerate kernel  method (MDKM). To construct a MDKM the source function is approximated by the same way of producing degenerate kernel. The interpolation is used to make the needed approximations. Lagrange polynomials are adopted for the interpolation. The equivalency of  proposed m...

The issue of different parameterizations of the axisymmetric vesicle shape addressed by Hu Jian-Guo and Ou-Yang Zhong-Can [ Phys.Rev. E 47 (1993) 461 ] is reassesed, especially as it transpires through the corresponding Euler Lagrange equations of the associated elastic energy functional. It is argued that for regular, smooth contours of vesicles with spherical topology, different parameterizat...