A new tool to investigate the interactions between elastic fibers and rigid bodies
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چکیده
This paper presents a new tool which makes it possible to find the spatial configuration of a system featuring elastic fibres interacting with each other and/or with rigid bodies. The configuration is determined by means of the principle of the minimum elastic potential energy of the system, ignoring Coulomb friction at the contacts. In particular, the paper reports both the elastic fiber model and the rigid body representation that have been implemented in the tool. Finally an application of the tool to the biomechanical field is presented.
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