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Multibody Systems

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Dynamics of Multibody Systems

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The Seventeenth Century saw Galileo, Stevin, Huygens and Newton first shape the science we call rational mechanics. Statics had developed, at least in part, by the end of the Sixteenth Century. Thereafter, the early goals were to understand and describe in mathematical terms the translational motion of material bodies, usually idealized as particles.

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  1. Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Professor Robert E. Roberson

  2. Institut für Dynamik der Flugsysteme, Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DFVLR), 8031, Weßling, Germany

    Dr.-Ing. Richard Schwertassek

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Roberson, R.E., Schwertassek, R. (1988). Multibody Systems. In: Dynamics of Multibody Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86464-3_1

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