This chapter concerns the dynamic analysis of flexible multibody systems. After a brief review of the inertial frame, the corotational frame and the floating frame approaches, a general simulation framework is presented ...

We present a new implementation of substructuring methods for flexible multibody analysis. In previous developed formulations, we fixed the local axes of the superelement to one node. In this formulation, the reference ...

A geometrically exact thin-walled composite beam finite element for multibody applications is presented. In the proposed formulation the virtual work equations are written as a function of generalized strains, which are ...

A nonlinear large rotations beam element is presented within the framework of an energy conserving algorithm which was presented in previous works [Lens E, Cardona A, Ge´radin M. Energy preserving time integration for ...

This paper proposes a family of Lie group time integrators for the simulation of flexible multibody systems. The method provides an elegant solution to the rotation parameterization problem. As an extension of the classical ...

As the need to model flexibility arose in multibody dynamics, the floating frame of reference formulation was developed, but this approach can yield inaccurate results when elastic displacements becomes large. While the ...

We present a new node-to-face frictional contact element for the simulation of the nonsmooth dynamics of systems composed of rigid and flexible bodies connected by kinematic joints. The equations of motion are integrated ...

The aim of this work is the development of a robust and accurate time integrator for the simulation of the dynamics of multibody systems composed of rigid and/or flexible bodies subject to frictionless contacts and impacts. ...