A Corotational Formulation for the Simulation of Flexible Mechanisms

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 267-295

  Devloo, Philippe ^a   Géradin, Michel ^a   Fleury, Raphaël ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consistent tangent matrix; Corotational formulation; Finite elements; Flexible mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041686580     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009884131140     Document Type: Article

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