Integrated simulation of mechanical structures and their control system
English
Bruls, Olivier[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Laboratoire des Systèmes Multicorps et Mécatroniques >]
De Boe, Pascal[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > LTAS - Vibrations et identification des structures > >]
Duysinx, Pierre[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Ingénierie des véhicules terrestres >]
Golinval, Jean-Claude[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > LTAS - Vibrations et identification des structures >]
May-2002
Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering (ACOMEN)
1-10
International
2nd Int. Conf. on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering (ACOMEN)
Liège
Belgium
[en] Flexible Multibody Systems ; Active Control
[en] This paper concerns the modeling and the integrated numerical simulation of flexible mechanisms subject to the action of a digital control system. A general method is proposed, based on the formalism of flexible multibody systems (MBS) using the Finite Element Method (FEM). Nonlinear e ects in the mechanical structure or in the control system can be taken into account. The numerical simulation tool is applied to design an active control system in a hot-dip galvanizing line, which aims at reducing the vibrations of the steel strip.