A MATLAB program to study gust loading on a simple aircraft model

The present report is part of a "Manual" on aircraft loads, that is being prepared by NLR. It contains a computer program, to be used in combination with "MATLAB4 for Windows" (Student Edition) software, to study aircraft loading due to turbulence. It includes a simple aircraft response model with two rigid and three flexible symmetric degrees...

Linear recursive formulation of flexible multi-body space system dynamics

Numerical simulation of the dynamics of multi-body systems constitutes a central part in the design and analysis of modern space-based systems. The report focuses on the development of a recursive formulation of the dynamics of flexible spacecraft-robotmanipulator systems, suitable for efficient numerical simulation. The rather well-established...

Study on efficient numerical time-integration methods for simulation of multi-body systems

This report describes the results of an evaluation of numerical integration schemes to be used for the digital simulation of second order ordinary differential equations (ODE's) which are characteristic for multibody systems such as space manipulators. The study focuses on dedicated schemes for this type of systems. Main attention is paid to the...