Geometry and differentiability requirements in multibody railroad vehicle dynamic formulations

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 249-261

  Rathod, Cheta ^a   Shabana, Ahmed A ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute coordinates; Multibody dynamics; Planar and three dimensional contact; Railroad vehicles; Trajectory coordinates

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RAILROADS; TRAJECTORIES;

ABSOLUTE COORDINATES; MULTIBODY DYNAMICS; PLANAR AND THREE DIMENSIONAL CONTACT; RAILROAD VEHICLES; TRAJECTORY COORDINATES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 33846087784     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-006-9071-7     Document Type: Article

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