[MBDyn-users] MBDyn and Ropes-Pulley

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Hi JM,

this may not be exactly what you look for, but you may try the approach 
described in the "Constitutive law for a chain" thread  on the MBDyn 
mailing list, see this archive page: 
https://lists.mbdyn.org/pipermail/mbdyn-users/2008-May/thread.html

kind regards,


-Louis



On 01/09/22 19:25, MBDyn users list wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I looked at MBDyn documentation and examples and did not identified 
> functions to model and simulate ropes - pulleys assemblies (for 
> exemple for mainsail hoist). Is there something that I could have 
> overlooked?
>
> The use case is not straightforward to model as a "distance" as there 
> are multiple pulleys attached to different locations, different 
> purchase in those, with some angles between the different parts...
>
> Maybe this does not fall in the category of problems to be addressed 
> by a tool like MBDyn.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JM
>
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