Primal and mixed forms of Hamilton's principle for constrained rigid body systems: Numerical studies

DOI10.1007/BF00369980zbMath0739.70010MaRDI QIDQ1181583

Satya N. Atluri, Marco Borri, Frank J. Mello

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementvariational formconstraint equationsholonomically and nonholonomically constrained systemsquaternion parametrization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Hamilton's principle (70H25) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Holonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F20)

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