Abstract: This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the dynamics simulation and analysis of multi-flexible-body systems. This algorithm formulates and solves the nonlinear equations of motion for ...

Abstract: This paper describes a novel method for the modeling of intermittent contact in multi-rigid-body problems. We use a complementarity based time-stepping scheme in Featherstone’s divide and conquer ...

Abstract: A seven degree-of-freedom (7DOF) dynamic model was developed to provide insight into the flight behavior of Type 200 and other related lightcraft, and to serve as a research tool for developing ...

Abstract: A new and efficient form of Featherstone’s multibody divide and conquer algorithm (DCA) is presented and evaluated. The DCA was the first algorithm to achieve theoretically the optimal logarithmic ...