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Elastic Plates in Multibody Systems: A Treatment Using Existing Rigid Body Codes

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In the present paper, it is shown how one can employ existing rigid body codes to handle systems containing elastic plates by using a Rayleigh–Ritz discretization procedure. The equations of motion are formulated for a rectangular plate undergoing large rigid body motions but small elastic deformations. Geometric nonlinearities in the elastic coordinates are taken into account to include the effect of dynamic stiffening. As an example, a spin-up maneuver for a simply-supported plate is treated.

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  1. Institut für Mechanik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstraße 1, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Peter Hagedorn & Martin Botz

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Hagedorn, P., Botz, M. Elastic Plates in Multibody Systems: A Treatment Using Existing Rigid Body Codes. Multibody System Dynamics 1, 351–359 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009737121336

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