A standard technique to reduce the system size of flexible multibody systems is the component mode synthesis. Selected mode shapes are used to approximate the flexible deformation of each single body numerically. Conventionally, the (small) flexible deformation is added relatively to a body-local reference frame which results in the floating frame of reference formulation (FFRF). The coupling between large rigid body motion and small relative deformation is nonlinear, which leads to computationally expensive nonconstant mass matrices and quadratic velocity vectors. In the present work, the total (absolute) displacements are directly approximated by means of global (inertial) mode shapes, without a splitting into rigid body motion and superimposed flexible deformation. As the main advantage of the proposed method, the mass matrix is constant, the quadratic velocity vector vanishes, and the stiffness matrix is a co-rotated constant matrix. Numerical experiments show the equivalence of the proposed method to the FFRF approach.
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January 2013
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A Generalized Component Mode Synthesis Approach for Flexible Multibody Systems With a Constant Mass Matrix
Astrid Pechstein,
e-mail: astrid.pechstein@jku.at
Astrid Pechstein
1
Institute of Technical Mechanics
,Johannes Kepler University Linz
,Altenbergerstraße 69
,4040 Linz
, Austria
e-mail: astrid.pechstein@jku.at
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Daniel Reischl,
Johannes Gerstmayr
Johannes Gerstmayr
e-mail: johannes.gerstmayr@lcm.at
Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH
,Altenbergerstraße 69
,4040 Linz
, Austria
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Astrid Pechstein
Institute of Technical Mechanics
,Johannes Kepler University Linz
,Altenbergerstraße 69
,4040 Linz
, Austria
e-mail: astrid.pechstein@jku.at
Daniel Reischl
e-mail: daniel.reischl@lcm.at
Johannes Gerstmayr
e-mail: johannes.gerstmayr@lcm.at
Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH
,Altenbergerstraße 69
,4040 Linz
, Austria
1Corresponding author.
Contributed by the Design Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS. Manuscript received February 5, 2012; final manuscript received June 4, 2012; published online August 31, 2012. Assoc. Editor: Arend L. Schwab.
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. Jan 2013, 8(1): 011019 (10 pages)
Published Online: August 31, 2012
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February 5, 2012
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June 4, 2012
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Pechstein, A., Reischl, D., and Gerstmayr, J. (August 31, 2012). "A Generalized Component Mode Synthesis Approach for Flexible Multibody Systems With a Constant Mass Matrix." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. January 2013; 8(1): 011019. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4007191
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