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The students will acquire basic knowledge in the field of multi-body systems that they can use with multi-body dynamics simulation packages on the modeling and calculation.

Introduction to multibody dynamics; Building simulation programs; Parameterization of rotations and equations of motion of a rigid body; Constraints and joint conditions; Derivation of the equations of motion for multibody systems; Solution of differential-algebraic equations; Flexible multibody systems and modal reduction

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Course examination under § 7 part of the statute, study Legal Restrictions

1) A.A. Shabana, Dynamics of Multibody Systems, 2nd Ed., Cambridge, Edinburgh, 1998.

2) P.E. Nikravesh, Computer-Aided Analysis of Mechanical Systems, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988.

3) M. Geradin and A. Cardona, Flexible Multibody Dynamics - A Finite element Approach, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001.