Research Article

A Differential Algebraic Method to Approximate Nonsmooth Mechanical Systems by Ordinary Differential Equations

Figure 3

Simulation of the system (10); (a) provided external force described as (20); (b) simulation results by RK4 with the timestep size 0.001 s. The parameters are chosen as  kg,  N,  N/m, and  s. The initial conditions are  m and  m/s.
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