Multibody Systems Handbook
By: edited by Werner Schiehlen
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9783642509971; 9783642509957
Subjects: Engineering; Computer simulation; Applied Mechanics; Mathematics; Chemistry; Engineering design
Description: Dynamics of multibody systems is of great importance in the fields of robotics, biomechanics, spacecraft control, road and rail vehicle design, and dynamics of machinery. Many research problems have been solved and a considerable number of computer codes based on multibody formalisms is now available. With the present book it is intended to collect software systems for multibody system dynamics which are well established and have found acceptance in the users community. The Handbook will aid the reader in selecting the software system which is most appropriate to his needs. Altogether 17 research groups contributed to the Handbook. A compact summary of important capabilities of these software systems is presented in tabular form. All authors dealt with two typical test examples, a planar mechanism and a spatial robot. Thus, it is very easy to compare the results and to identify more clearly the advantages of one or the other formalism.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction; title: Overview; title: Test Examples; title: Descriptions of Codes: NUBEMM; title: SYM; title: CAMS; title: AUTOLEV; title: UCIN-DYNOCOMBS; title: SPACAR; title: NBOD & DISCOS; title: DADS; title: NEWEUL; title: MEDYNA; title: AUTODYN & ROBOTRAN; title: SIMPACK; title: COMPAMM; title: DYMAC & DYSPAM; title: MESA VERDE; title: ADAMS; title: PLEXUS; title: Contributors and Distributors; title: Index.