Abstract: The viscous criterion is a recently developed criterion to assess injury severity of the human thorax. In the viscous criterion, the peak viscous response, which is defined as the maximum ...

Abstract: A method for analyzing constrained multibody systems is presented. The method is applicable to a class of problems in which the multibody system is subjected to both force and kinematic ...

Abstract: This paper presents a general conservation theorem for multibody systems subject to simple nonholonomic constraints. It is applicable to both conservative and nonconservative systems. The derivation ...

Abstract: A dynamical formulation based upon the undetermined force method is presented for analyzing redundant robotic manipulators. The equivalence between this dynamical formulation and the general solution ...

Abstract: A procedure for automated analysis of constrained multibody systems is presented. The procedure is based upon Kane’s equations and the concept of undetermined multipliers. It is applicable with ...