General spatial curve joint for rail guided vehicles: Kinematics and dynamics

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-264

  Pombo, João ^a   Ambrósio, Jorge A C ^a  

^a Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Frenet frame; Prescribed motion constraint; Railway dynamics; Spatial curve geometry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTERPOLATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRACKS;

FRENET FRAME; PRESCRIBED MOTION CONSTRAINT; RAILWAY DYNAMICS; SPATIAL CURVE GEOMETRY;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 0038005404     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022961825986     Document Type: Article

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