A TORSIONAL SPRING-LIKE BEAM ELEMENT FOR
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T. M. WASFY
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A new finite element beam formulation for modelling flexible multibody systems undergoing large rigidbody motion and large deflections is developed. In this formulation, the motion of the 'nodes' is referred to a global inertial reference frame. Only Cartesian position co-ordinates are used as degre