Improved Craig–Bampton Method Implemented into Durability Analysis of Flexible Multibody Systems

Numerical Analysis of Flexible Multibody Systems

Modeling Intermittent Contact for Flexible Multibody Systems

This paper consists of two parts. The first part presents a complementarity based recursive scheme to model intermittent contact for flexible multibody systems. A recursive divide and conquer framework is used to explicitly impose the bilateral constraints in the entire system. The presented approach is an extension of the hybrid scheme for rigid multibody systems to allow for small deformation...

A method for durability analysis of development systems in computing

This thesis explores using a systemic view on software engineering to analyze its high failure rate. With the growing amount of bugs, and (emergent) misbehavior in software nowadays, it would pay to analyze the way in which we make this software first. Durability is proposed as a key property of development systems as a measurable indication of a system’s ability to prevent failure. Research in...

Method of Transformation from Inertial to Reference Frame Formulation of Flexible Multibody Systems

This paper presents a method of the reformulation of equations in the inertial frame formulation to the floating frame formulation. Results of a simulation example, performed using the modal transformation, show the good agreement with the standard inertial frame methods.

A Class of Stabilizing Controllers for Flexible Multibody Systems

This paper considers the problem of controlling a class of nonlinear multibody flexible space systems consisting of a flexible central body to which a number of articulated appendages are attached. Collocated actuators and sensors are assumed, and global asymptotic stability of such systems is established under a nonlinear dissipative control law. The stability is shown to be robust to unmodele...