Abstract

AbstractThe paper deals with substructuring for dynamic analysis of flexible multibody systems. Three different techniques based on component synthesis are discussed, corresponding respectively to fully consistent mass discretization, lumped mass discretization and corotational approximation of inertia forces. To simplify the computer implementation, only the lumped mass and corotational approximations have been considered in detail and programmed. Both approaches are validated on simple examples of rotating beams for which a full elastic model is available using a fully non‐linear beam element. The computational efficiency of the corotational inertia approach is also demonstrated on the deployment of a large flexible satellite antenna.

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