Computational Aspects of Nonlinear Structural Systems with Large Rigid Body Motion (Nato-Computer and Systems Sciences, 179) - Hardcover

9781586031602: Computational Aspects of Nonlinear Structural Systems with Large Rigid Body Motion (Nato-Computer and Systems Sciences, 179)

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ISBN 10: 1586031600 ISBN 13: 9781586031602

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006

Published as an outgrowth of a July 2000 NATO Advanced Research Workshop, this volume brings together work representing the various generally non-interacting scientific communities concerned with the workshop topic, in the interests of generating some cross-talk. The field has seen some major recent developments, some finding their way into commercial, general purpose software intended for complex industrial applications. Thirteen contributions consider four major themes: flexible multibody systems, finite element procedures for structural systems with large rotations, numerical integration methods for rigid and flexible systems, and advanced methods in systems with large rigid body motion. The contributors are based in France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Poland, the US, and Australia. Author index only. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Major developments achieved in the fields dealing with computational methods for the analysis of nonlinear structures experiencing large rigid body motion and with flexible multibody systems with nonlinear deformations are finding their way into the commercial general-purpose software in both finite elements and multibody dynamics packages, providing powerful numerical tools for complex industrial applications. Unfortunately, the efforts of scientific communities, such as those dealing with finite elements, multibody dynamics and numerical analysis, do not have the desired interaction. Consequently, major findings in each of the scientific areas are slow to reach other communities preventing that the scientific progress that can be achieved in areas of common interest reaches its full potential. This book, which is an outgrowth of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop that brought together the leading scientists, aims fill such gap by assessing the current state-of-art and providing specific results from the different schools of thought with a focus on the trends for future research.

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