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Developments of multibody system dynamics: computer simulations and experiments

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It is an exceptional success when multibody dynamics researchers Multibody System Dynamics journal one of the most highly ranked journals in the last 10 years. In the inaugural issue, Professor Schiehlen wrote an interesting article explaining the roots and perspectives of multibody system dynamics. Professor Shabana also wrote an interesting article to review developments in flexible multibody dynamics. The application possibilities of multibody system dynamics have grown wider and deeper, with many application examples being introduced with multibody techniques in the past 10 years. In this paper, the development of multibody dynamics is briefly reviewed and several applications of multibody dynamics are described according to the author’s research results. Simulation examples are compared to physical experiments, which show reasonableness and accuracy of the multibody formulation applied to real problems. Computer simulations using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) were also compared to physical experiments; therefore, the validity of ANCF for large-displacement and large-deformation problems was shown. Physical experiments for large deformation problems include beam, plate, chain, and strip. Other research topics currently being carried out in the author’s laboratory are also briefly explained.

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    Wan-Suk Yoo, Kee-Nam Kim & Hyun-Woo Kim

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Yoo, WS., Kim, KN., Kim, HW. et al. Developments of multibody system dynamics: computer simulations and experiments. Multibody Syst Dyn 18, 35–58 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-007-9062-6

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