Optimal comfort response of road vehicles using flexible multibody dynamics

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 5 A, Issue , 2003, Pages 431-438

  Gonçalves, João P C ^a   Ambrósio, Jorge A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

COORDINATE SYSTEMS; DIAGONALIZATION; MULTIBODY DYNAMICS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 18744436086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/vib-48350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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