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Unilateral Multibody Dynamics

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Contact processes may be represented by local discretization, by a rigid body approach or by a mixed method using both ideas. For the dynamics of mechanical systems a rigid body approach is described achieving good results also for multiple contact problems. This paper considers mainly contacts in multi-body systems where the corresponding contact constraints vary with time thus generating structure-variant systems. The equations of motion for dynamical systems with such an unilateral behavior are discussed, solution methods and applications are presented.

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Pfeiffer, F. Unilateral Multibody Dynamics. Meccanica 34, 435–449 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004724313496

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