Abstract: This paper describes a simple and efficient procedure for the treatment of conformal contact conditions with special emphasis on railroad wheel/rail contacts. The general threedimensional nonconformal contact conditions ...

Abstract: This work is devoted to the validation of a computational dynamics approach previously developed by the authors for the simulation of moving loads interacting with flexible bodies through arbitrary contact modeling. The ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new flexible multibody system (MBS) approach for modeling textile systems including rolldrafting sets used in chemical textile machinery. The proposed approach can be used in the analysis of textile ...

Abstract: This technical brief describes the procedure and demonstrates the feasibility of integrating soil/tire models using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF). The effects of both the soil plasticity and the tire ...

Abstract: In order to model a long flexible body subjected to a moving load within multibody systems, the flexibility can be considered by using a special floating frame of reference approach. In this approach the body deformations ...

Abstract: Predicting creep crack growth (CCG) of flaws found during operation in high-temperature alloy components is essential for assessing the remaining lifetime of those components. While defect assessment procedures are available ...

Abstract: This paper discusses fundamental issues related to the integration of computer aided design and analysis (ICADA) by introducing a new class of ideal compliant joints that account for the distributed inertia and elasticity. ...