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Rigid Body Dynamics

Rigid Body Dynamics is a branch of classical mechanics that studies the motion of rigid bodies under the influence of forces and torques, distinguished by the constraint that the distance between any two points within the body remains constant during motion.

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A Mechanism for Non-Newtonian Flow in Suspensions of Rigid Spheres

Irvin M. Krieger, Thomas J. Dougherty · Transactions of the Society of Rheology · 1959 · 3.3K citations

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Adaptive motion control of rigid robots: A tutorial

Roméo Ortega, Mark W. Spong · Automatica · 1989 · 1.2K citations

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<i>Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems</i>

Jerry B. Marion, J. Gillis · Physics Today · 1966 · 1.1K citations

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Distributed finite-time attitude containment control for multiple rigid bodies

Ziyang Meng, Wei Ren, Zheng You · Automatica · 2010 · 968 citations

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On the rigid-body motion of molecules in crystals

Verner Schomaker, K. N. Trueblood · Acta Crystallographica Section B · 1968 · 954 citations

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  1. TS
    T. S. Amer

    Tanta University, Egypt

    23 publications · 632 citations

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  2. NH
    N. Harris McClamroch

    University of Michigan, United States

    27 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. AA
    Ahmed A. Shabana

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    20 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. JE
    Jerrold E. Marsden

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    18 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. RL
    Ronald L. Huston

    University of Cincinnati, United States

    23 publications · 1.4K citations

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  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    30 h-index

    129 publications

    6.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    88 publications

    6.1K citations

  3. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    21 h-index

    53 publications

    2.9K citations

  4. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    20 h-index

    35 publications

    4.2K citations

  5. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Troy, United States

    19 h-index

    69 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    19 h-index

    34 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

    Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France

    19 h-index

    42 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    19 h-index

    43 publications

    5.8K citations

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  1. Multibody System Dynamics

    90 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

    66 publications · 3.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Mechanics

    62 publications · 4K citations

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  4. Nonlinear Dynamics

    60 publications · 2.4K citations

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  5. Mechanism and Machine Theory

    56 publications · 3.4K citations

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