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V. Ph. Zhuravlev, "Analysis of the structure of generalized forces in the Lagrange equations," Mech. Solids. 43 (6), 837-842 (2008)
Year 2008 Volume 43 Number 6 Pages 837-842
DOI 10.3103/S0025654408060010
Title Analysis of the structure of generalized forces in the Lagrange equations
Author(s) V. Ph. Zhuravlev (Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr-t Vernadskogo 101, str. 1, Moscow, 119526, Russia, zhurav@ipmnet.ru)
Abstract Stability of mechanical systems in the sense of Thomson and Tait [1] can be judged from the type of forces applied to them. The forces are usually divided into potential (conservative), circular, dissipative, accelerating, gyroscopic, etc. The decomposition itself of generalized positional forces into conservative and properly nonconservative forces is well known for the case in which these forces linearly depend on the generalized coordinates (e.g., see [1-5]). Such a decomposition is associated with the unique representation of an arbitrary matrix of these forces as the sum of symmetric and skew-symmetric parts. Generalized forces linearly depending on the velocities can in a similar way be divided into dissipative and gyroscopic parts. In the present paper, we show how the same decomposition can be performed in the general nonlinear case.
Received 11 April 2007
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