Journal papers

1. M. Anitescu and G.D. Hart. A constraint-stabilized time-stepping approach for rigid multibody dynamics with joints, contact and friction.   International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 60(14), 2335-2371, 2004.   pdf     

   • DOI:  10.1002/nme.1047

2. M. Anitescu and G.D. Hart. A Fixed-Point Iteration Approach for Multibody Dynamics with Contact and Small Friction. Mathematical Programming, 101(1), 3--32. 2004.   pdf    

   • DOI:  10.1007/s10107-004-0535-6

3. M. Anitescu and G. D. Hart. Solving nonconvex problems of multibody dynamics with contact and small friction by sequential convex relaxation. Mechanics Based Design of Machines and Structures 31(3), 335-356, 2003.   pdf   

   • DOI:  10.1081/SME-120022854

Refereed Proceedings Papers

1. M. Anitescu, A. Miller and G. Hart. Constraint stabilization for time-stepping approaches for rigid multibody dynamics with joints, contact and friction. Proceedings of ASME 2003 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Chicago, Illinois, September 2003, Paper DETC2003/VIB-48432.   pdf   

   • No DOI 

2. G.D. Hart and Mihai Anitescu. A Hard-Constraint Time-Stepping Approach for Rigid Multibody Dynamics with Joints, Contact, and Friction. Proceedings of the ACM 2003 Tapia Conference for Diversity in Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003, 34–40.   pdf  

   • DOI:  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/948542.948550

Papers In Progress

1. G.D. Hart and Mihai Anitescu. Low Complexity Depth of Penetration Evaluation for Polyhedral Bodies Using Linear Programming.

2. G.D. Hart and Mihai Anitescu. Time-Stepping Methods for Nonsmooth Shaped Rigid Body Dynamics for Contact and Friction
   

Ph. D. Dissertation

1. G.D. Hart. A constraint-stabilized time-stepping approach for Piecewise Smooth Multibody Dynamics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA  2007.  pdf   slides    

Presentation Slides

1. "A Linear Complementarity Time-Stepping Scheme for Rigid Multibody Dynamics with Nonsmooth Shapes" as an invited speaker at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2004 in Denver, CO.  slides   

2. "A Hard Constraint Time-Stepping Approach for Rigid Multibody Dynamics with Joints, Contact, and Friction" as an invited speaker at the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference 2003 in Atlanta, GA.  slides