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Flexible Multibody Dynamics: A Finite Element Approach

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This book promises much (read the table of contents), and delivers little.

For example, the preface indicates Chapter 10 on implicit time integration will provide details of the authors' *implementation* of implicit time integration of multi-body rigid/flexible systems. Nothing could be less accurate. A review of accuracy and stability of some Newmark methods, of the HHT alpha method, and of the "generalized" alpha method is provided, but absolutely nothing is provided in the way of implementation by the authors, as promised in the preface.

The real "meat" of the book is really contained in the referenced works.

The best use you can make of this book is to get the list of references in the book's backmatter, and go to them to get more than the cursory, high-level overviews contained in this over-priced book.

If one of the real masters, e.g. Hughes, had attempted this, we would have book as great as Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis. LSDFEA by Hughes has a Much more In Depth and Insightful discussion of implicit time integration, and master Hughes provides clarity of implementation details the authors of this book would do well to emulate.

If the book had been about one-quarter of the price, then I would be keeping it.