Analysis of flexible multibody systems with spatial beams using mixed variational principles

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1071-1090

  Quadrelli, B M ^a   Atluri, S N ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Ctr for Aerosp Res and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam finite elements; Finite rotation; Flexible multibody dynamics; Variational principles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

FLEXIBLE MULTIBODY SYSTEMS; MIXED VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0032115336     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19980730)42:6<1071::AID-NME400>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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