On constrained mechanical systems: D’Alembert’s and Gauss’ principles

DOI10.1063/1.528278zbMath0678.70018OpenAlexW1979512309MaRDI QIDQ3835073

Giovanni Zanzotto, Franco Cardin

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528278

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss principlereaction forcesGauss' functionideal holonomic constraintsbundle of two- jetskinetic energy functionsmetric structure on the bundle of semibasic forms on the phase spacenon-Riemannian mechanical systemsprinciples of D'Alembert

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Classical field theories (70Sxx)

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• Dynamic Analysis of Multirigid‐Body System Based on the Gauss Principle