Constraint Forces and Undetermined Multipliers in Constrained Multibody Systems

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 381-389

  Huston, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained systems; Constraint forces; Lagrange multipliers; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000504952     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009868500311     Document Type: Article

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