Interface reduction of flexible bodies for efficient modeling of body flexibility in multibody dynamics

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-234

  Heirman, Gert H K ^a   Desmet, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; Flexible multibody dynamics; Interface reduction; Interpolation multipoint constraint; Model reduction; RBE2; RBE3; Rigid multipoint constraint

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FLEXIBLE MULTI-BODY DYNAMICS; INTERFACE REDUCTION; MODEL REDUCTION; MULTI POINT CONSTRAINTS; RBE2; RBE3;

DYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION; MODAL ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77956588716     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11044-010-9198-7     Document Type: Article

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