An efficient formulation for general-purpose multibody/multiphysics analysis

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Masarati, Pierangelo ^a   Morandini, Marco ^a   Mantegazza, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

EFFICIENT FORMULATION; FINITE ROTATIONS; MULTI-BODY; SOLUTION PHASIS;

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

EID: 84904361392     PISSN: 15551415     EISSN: 15551423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4025628     Document Type: Article

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