...Karim Sherif; Hans Irschik; Wolfgang Witteveen In multibody dynamics, the flexibility effects of each body are captured by using a linear combination of elastic mode shapes. If a co-rotational and co-translating frame of reference is used together with eigenvectors of the unconstraint body, which...

... at the contact points of rolling elements and races, whose stiffnesses are obtained by using Hertzian elastic contact deformation theory. The numerical integration technique Newmark-β with the Newton–Raphson method is used to solve the nonlinear differential equations, iteratively. The effect of bearing running...

...Jiang Zhao; Qiang Tian; Haiyan Hu Modal analysis of a rotating thin plate is made in this paper through the use of the thin plate elements described by the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF). The analytical expressions of elastic forces and their Jacobian matrices of the thin plate...

... with the structural model ( 28 ). 11 01 2010 17 12 2010 02 03 2011 02 03 2011 aerodynamics aerospace components bending elasticity partial differential equations torsion aeroelastic wing divergence flutter follower force postcritical behaviors The advantages...

... suggests that the second harmonic excitation contributes more strongly to resonance at the second harmonic of mesh frequency than nonlinear superharmonic resonance. 30 10 2009 16 05 2010 22 10 2010 22 10 2010 elasticity finite element analysis gears perturbation theory...

... – 3174 . 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2008.10.025 14 10 2009 23 06 2010 22 10 2010 22 10 2010 damping drilling (geotechnical) elasticity friction vibrations Rotary drilling systems using drag bits, as used for the exploration and production of oil and gas, are known...

...Masataka Fukunaga; Nobuyuki Shimizu Two types of models are proposed for describing nonlinear fractional derivative dynamical behavior of viscoelastic materials subject to impulse forces. The models are derived based on the thermodynamic elasticity in terms of entropy and on the “scale-free...

...Takashi Ikeda Nonlinear vibrations of an elastic structure with two partially filled liquid tanks subjected to horizontal harmonic excitation are investigated. The natural frequencies of the structure and sloshing satisfy the tuning condition 1:1:1 when tuned liquid dampers are used. The equations...

... Lillian , T. D. , Perkins , N. C. , and Goyal , S. , 2008 , “ Computational Elastic Rod Model Applied to DNA Looping ,” Proceedings of ASME IDETC/CIE 2007 , Las Vegas, NV, Sep. 4–7, Vol. 5 , pp. 1449 – 1456 . Goyal , S. , 2006 , “ A Dynamic Rod Model to Simulate Mechanics...

... and kinematic differences between two independent space curves cannot always be reduced by using restoring elastic forces. Because of the nonuniqueness of such a finite element representation, imposing continuity on higher derivatives such as the curvature vector is not straight forward as in the case...

... of the element coordinates x ¯ i , and, therefore, the elastic forces are defined as an area element in the case of two-dimensional problems, which allows for describing the deformation of the beam cross section. This, however, leads to highly coupled deformation modes ( 15 ), and the shear...

... on an elastic line approach. In the last formulation, the shear locking of the antisymmetric bending mode is avoided by the application of either the two-field Hellinger–Reissner or the three-field Hu–Washizu variational principle. The comparison is made by means of linear static deflection and eigenfrequency...

...Muhammad Tanveer; Anand V. Singh A unified approach to study the forced linear and geometrically nonlinear elastic vibrations of fiber-reinforced laminated composite plates subjected to uniform load on the entire plate as well as on a localized area is presented in this paper. To accommodate...

...Hiroyuki Sugiyama; Yoshihiro Suda In this investigation, contact search algorithms for the analysis of wheel/rail contact problems are discussed, and the on-line and off-line hybrid contact search method is developed for multibody railroad vehicle dynamics simulations using the elastic contact...

...Dénes Takács; Gábor Stépán The lateral vibration of towed wheels—so-called shimmy—is one of the most exciting phenomena of vehicle dynamics. We give a brief description of a simple rig of elastic tire that was constructed for laboratory measurements. A full report is given on the experimental...

...Akira Saito; Matthew P. Castanier; Christophe Pierre; Olivier Poudou The efficient nonlinear vibration analysis of a rotating elastic structure with a crack is examined. In particular, the solution of the forced vibration response of a cracked turbine engine blade is investigated. Starting...

...Bassam A. Hussein; Hiroyuki Sugiyama; Ahmed A. Shabana 06 05 2008 beams (structures) bending deformation elasticity finite element analysis pendulums variational techniques Figures 8–13 in Ref. 1 contain results of the simulation of a very flexible pendulum. The results...

... response into the otherwise often-linear structural model. Recent studies have successfully captured and simulated mechanical joint dynamics using computationally simple phenomenological models of combined elasticity and slip with associated friction and energy dissipation, known as Iwan models...

...Philip P. Garland, Ph.D. Candidate; Robert J. Rogers A new solution method for the oblique elastic impact of similar spheres with Coulomb friction is presented. The solution uses approximations of the shear stress distributions at each time step during impact. These distributions are solved from...

.... Some statistical results of wind tunnel tests are presented. The possibility of aeroelastic instability of the cable dome is discussed. 21 03 2006 23 01 2007 structural engineering elasticity design engineering mechanical stability wind tunnels harmonics For super-large...