Solving Nonconvex Problems of Multibody Dynamics with Joints, Contact, and Small Friction by Successive Convex Relaxation

Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 335-356

  Anitescu, Mihai ^a,b   Hart, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulomb friction; Fixed point iteration; Linear complementarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LINEAR COMPLEMENTARITY;

FRICTION;

EID: 0141757467     PISSN: 15397734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SME-120022854     Document Type: Article

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