Finite element appendage equations for hybrid coordinate dynamic analysis.

Abstract The increasingly common practice of idealizing a spacecraft as a collection of interconnected rigid bodies to some of which are attached linearly elastic flexible appendages leads to equations of motion expressed in terms of a combination of discrete coordinates describing the arbitrary rotational motions of the rigid bodies and distributed or modal coordinates describing the small, time-varying deformations of the appendages; such a formulation is said to employ a hybrid system of coordinates. In the present paper the existing literature is extended to provide hybrid coordinate equations of motion for a finite element model of a flexible appendage attached to a rigid base undergoing unrestricted motions and some of the advantages of the finite element approach are noted. Transformations to the modal coordinates appropriate for the general case are provided.

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