1. Preface

   • Manuel F. O. Seabra Pereira
   • Jorge A. C. Ambrósio

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

2. Free-floating closed-chain planar robots: Kinematics and path planning

   • S. K. Agrawal
   • R. Garimella
   • G. Desmier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 19

3. Validation of flexible beam elements in dynamics programs

   • J. P. Meijaard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 36

4. An energy conserving co-rotational procedure for non-linear dynamics with finite elements

   • M. A. Crisfield
   • J. Shi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 52

5. Impact dynamics of multibody systems with frictional contact using joint coordinates and canonical equations of motion

   • M. Seabra Pereira
   • P. Nikravesh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 71

6. On the use of linear graph theory in multibody system dynamics

   • J. J. McPhee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 90

7. Modeling of multibody systems with the object-oriented modeling language Dymola

   • M. Otter
   • H. Elmqvist
   • F. E. Cellier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 112

8. Augmented lagrangian and mass-orthogonal projection methods for constrained multibody dynamics

   • E. Bayo
   • R. Ledesma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 130

9. A multi level approach to synthesis of planar mechanisms

   • M. R. Hansen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 146

10. Symbolic computations in flexible multibody systems

    • F. Melzer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 163

11. Minimal dynamic characterization of tree-like multibody systems

    • P. Fisette
    • B. Raucent
    • J. C. Samin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 184

12. Sparse-matrix generation of Jacobians for the object-oriented modeling of multibody systems

    • A. Kecskeméthy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 204

13. Flexible multibody dynamics — An object-oriented approach

    • Martin Anantharaman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 221