Multibody dynamics and finite element analysis jointly form a robust framework for simulating the complex interplay between rigid and flexible bodies.

Jose L Ortiz, Daniel Heiserer, Issues Exporting a Multibody Dynamics System Model into a Finite Element Analysis Model, SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2010), ...

Advanced multibody techniques have been used to obtain fast computation times with the geometry and potential accuracy of CPU intensive finite element models. So-called facet surfaces have been used ...