Set-valued force laws are commonly used in multi-body simulations for modeling
constraints. Here, contacts implying structural variance are of special interest since
these might induce jumps to the system velocities. The current work extends and
applies the methods developed for rigid body systems to the simulation of flexible
systems: particularly the discretization of a flexible continuum with spatial discrete
contacts in mind is addressed. Thereby, special systems allow for minimal coordinate
representations. Numerical methods and program algorithms are presented aside.
Closing up examples span the field form academic systems up to the modeling of
industrial component assemblies.
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Set-valued force laws are commonly used in multi-body simulations for modeling
constraints. Here, contacts implying structural variance are of special interest since
these might induce jumps to the system velocities. The current work extends and
applies the methods developed for rigid body systems to the simulation of flexible
systems: particularly the discretization of a flexible continuum with spatial discrete
contacts in mind is addressed. Thereby, special systems allow for minimal coord...
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