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Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems with Imperfect Joints

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  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Campus Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal

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Flores, P., Ambrósio, J., Claro, J.P., Lankarani, H.M. (2008). Introduction. In: Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems with Imperfect Joints. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74361-3_1

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