A comprehensive survey of the literature of the most relevant analytical, numerical, and
experimental approaches for the kinematic and dynamic analyses of multibody mechanical …

In the present work, an introduction to the contact phenomena in multibody systems is made.
The different existing approaches are described, together with their most distinctive features …

Over the last decades, several compliant contact force models have been proposed.
However, no complete and systematic comparison has been done on these models, which …

Thank you for opening the third edition of this monograph. The first edition [202] was
published in 1996 in the Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series (vol. 220) …

This work reviews the main techniques to model dynamical systems with contact-impact
events. Regularized and non-smooth formulations are considered, wherein the fundamental …

A general and comprehensive analysis on the continuous contact force models for soft
materials in multibody dynamics is presented throughout this work. The force models are …

The nature of the constitutive contact force law utilized to describe contact–impact events in
solid contact interfaces plays a key role in predicting the response of multibody mechanical …

This study considers a solar array system as an example to explore the dynamic responses
and wear characteristics of a multi-body system considering clearance joints with solid …

It is commonly understood that the contact stiffness of the two colliding structures/objects is
dependent primarily on the material properties. However, there have been experimental and …

A comprehensive combined numerical and experimental study on the dynamic response of
a slider-crank mechanism with revolute clearance joints is presented and discussed in this …