Term: Winter Term
Lecturers
Content of Course
Machines, robots, vehicles and lightweight structures, that are subject to elastic deformation alongside large, non-linear working motions can be investigated using the method of flexible multibody systems. Significant examples are modern lightweight designs, rapid moving machine tools, robots and machinery with high precision requirements.
Firstly holonomic, rigid multibody systems in tree structure are recapitulated. After different approaches of modelling flexible multibody systems are introduced, the derivation of the floating frame of reference appraoch is explained in detail. This includes the kinematic description of elastic bodies, application of different shape functions to describe the elastic deformation, approaches for model reduction, the kinetics of a free body, its description using standard data, as well as a formalism to assemble the entire system.
Furthermore, the description of contact problems in multibody systems are presented. This includes continuous contact modelling and contact of flexible bodies. Finally, the further enlargement to the discrete-element-method is introduced.
General Information
The lecture Flexible Multibody Systems is part of the master-end module Modelling and Optimization in Dynamics and is intended for students in Energy Systems, Aircraft System Engineering, Mechatronics and Theoretical Mechanical Engineering.
The E-Learning System StudIP provides up-to-date information, as well as lecture and exercise materials. Please follow the link to sign in for the lecture Flexible Mehrkörpersysteme.
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