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The aim of this paper is to show that multibody systems with a large number of degrees of freedom can be efficiently modelled, taking conjointly advantage of a recursive formulation of the equations of motion and of the symbolic generation capabilities.
Recursive schemes are widely used in the field of multibody dynamics since they avoid the “explosion” of the number of arithmetical operations in case of large multibody models. Within the context of our field of applications (railway dynamics simulation), explicit integration schemes are still prefered and thus oblige us to compute the generalized accelerations at each time step. To achieve this, we propose a new formulation of the well-known Newton/Euler recursive method, whose efficiency will be compared with a so-called “O(N)” formulation.
A regards the symbolic generation, often decried due to the size of the equations in case of large systems, we have recently implemented recursive multibody formalisms in the symbolic programme ROBOTRAN [1]. As we shall explain, the recursive nature of these formalisms is particularly well-suited to symbolic manipulation.
All these developments have been successfully applied in the field of railway dynamics, and in particular allowed us to analyse the dynamic behaviour of several railway vehicles. Some typical results related to a completely non-conventional bogie will be presented before concluding.
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Fisette, P., Samin, J.C. Symbolic generation of large multibody system dynamic equations using a new semi-explicit Newton/Euler recursive scheme. Arch. Appl. Mech. 66, 187–199 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00795220
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