Abstract: In the current development of flexible multibody dynamics, the efficient and accurate consideration of distributed and nonlinear forces is an active area of research. Examples are, forces due to body-body contact or due ...

Abstract: Commercial multibody system simulation (MBS) tools commonly use a redundant coordinate formulation as part of their modeling strategy. Such multibody systems subject to holonomic constraints result in secondorder dindex ...

Abstract: In order to achieve a correct representation of jointed structures within multibody dynamic simulations, an accurate computation of the nonlinear contact and friction forces between the contact surfaces is required. In ...

Abstract: The time integration of a complex multibody system is a time consuming part of the entire evaluation process of a flexible component. A multibody simulation of a flexible crankshaft, for instance, interacting with pistons, ...

Abstract: Model reduction via projection is a common method to accelerate time integration of finite element (FE) structures by reducing the number of degrees-of-freedom (DOFs). However, nonlinear state-dependent surface loads are ...