TY - JOUR AB - A number of computer codes are available for the automatic generation of the equations of motion of multibody systems formed by rigid bodies. Systems containing deformable components generally cannot be treated readily by these programs. Demonstrates how multibody systems containing both rigid and deformable components can be handled with the aid of Autolev, a symbol manipulator for dynamics, when such components are discretized by a Rayleigh‐Ritz procedure. A computer code called Ritz was written to perform this task interactively with Autolev, and a Fortran program is generated automatically for the numerical simulation of motions of the system under consideration. The numerical results are then converted to Matlab format, so that plotting routines and other facilities available in Matlab can be used to process the results further. VL - 14 IS - 4 SN - 0264-4401 DO - 10.1108/02644409710178511 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409710178511 AU - Botz M. AU - Hagedorn P. PY - 1997 Y1 - 1997/01/01 TI - Dynamic simulation of multibody systems including planar elastic beams using Autolev T2 - Engineering Computations PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 456 EP - 470 Y2 - 2024/05/09 ER -