A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A HELICOPTER STANDING AND ROTATING ROTOR BLADE

Moussa Sylla (Côte d’Ivoire) and Ange-Paulin R. Barou (Côte d’Ivoire)

Received December 6, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: vibrations, flexible multibody systems, Rayleigh-Ritz method, impedance matrix, cantilever modes, rotating base cantilever modes.