Elastic rods, rigid bodies, quaternions and the last quadrature

DOI10.1098/rsta.1997.0113zbMath0895.73029OpenAlexW2070652085MaRDI QIDQ4371393

S. Kehrbaum, John H. Maddocks

Publication date: 21 September 1998

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1997.0113

zbMATH Keywords

invariantsconfiguration spaceintegralsEuler parameterscanonical Hamiltonian systemKirchhoff kinetic analogyrod equilibria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35)

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