Chapter 19: Transient Dynamic Analysis of a Digger-Arm Assembly

This example problem uses a digger-arm assembly to demonstrate a transient dynamic analysis of a multibody system.

The following techniques and capabilities are highlighted:

  • Defining joints, rigid parts, and flexible parts during modeling.

  • Mitigating overconstraints due to improper joint definitions.

  • Representing flexible parts using component mode synthesis (CMS).

The example also uses transient dynamic analyses for the following two cases:

  • Some of the parts are flexible and the remainder are rigid.

  • The flexible parts are modeled using CMS superelements.