The library provides Modelica models to represent flexible bodies such as beams, annular plates with optional thermo-elastic properties and modal bodies that originate from a finite-element (FE) model.
The user can define beam-like structures such as rotor blades by simply parameterizing an analytical model of a straight and homogeneous beam considering two-dimensional bending, torsional and lengthening deformations.
The analog approach is also applied to model the bending behavior of annular plates such as an helicopter swash plate. It also supports slide-on-plate nodes that facilitates modeling of sliding contact problems.
The component ModalBody represents flexible bodies of a general geometrical shape. The geometrical and physical properties are defined by a SID (standard input data) file that is generated by an external FE program such as Abaqus.
For ModalBody models in real-time environments, the SID-data may be converted into a Modelica package so that external file access is avoided.
