On control and optimization of elastic multilink mechanisms

Computers and Structures

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 483-502

  Wang, Hsu Lung ^a,b   Eischen, Jeffrey W ^a   Silverberg, Larry M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ELASTIC MULTILINK MECHANISMS; SLEWING CONTROL ALGORITHM; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0032092612     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(98)00060-1     Document Type: Article

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