PlanarMultiBody - A Modelica Library for Planar Multi-Body Systems

Kurzfassung

A new Modelica library for the modeling and simulation of 2-dimensional mechanical systems has been developed. It is based on the existing Modelica. Mechanics.MultiBody library and implements a number of simplifications and optimizations for 2- dimensional environments, which bring the advantages of a reduced complexity of the modeling process as well as a reduced computational effort. Additionally, new components are present for joints with curve-curve contact (e.g. cam follower joints). The basic approach is, to have a 1:1 mapping of packages, models and functions, if this makes sense, and specialising them to 2 dimensions.