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Multibody systems are characterized by two distinguishing features: system components undergo finite relative rotations and these components are connected by mechanical joints that impose restrictions on their relative motion. Broadly speaking, multibody systems can be divided into three categories, rigid multibody systems, linearly elastic multibody systems, and nonlinearly elastic multibody systems. This classification and its implication on modeling techniques for multibody systems are discussed in section 15.1.
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Bauchau, O.A. (2011). Flexible multibody systems: preliminaries. In: Flexible Multibody Dynamics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 176. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0335-3_15
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