RESPONSE PREDICTION BY NUMERICAL METHODS
Matthew Huang · 2002
Models such as the two non-isomorphic (with different structural configuration) hybrid or standard solid models, the combination of two hybrid models, and special cases with point masses will be treated first in closed-form. The purpose of the closed-form analysis is to investigate the dynamic responses of two dynamically equivalent hybrid models. In a multi-mass model, the unloading characteristics of a spring element is as important as the loading characteristics. The unloading of one mass in a model may produce loading of the neighboring masses, thereby, affecting the total system model responses.