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In the past 20 years, many multibody or “self-formulating” computer programs have been developed for the simulation of dynamic mechanical systems. These programs are based on algorithms that enable the computer to formulate, automatically, the equations of motion for a specified system, given only a description of the system as input; numerical methods can be applied to the resulting differential-algebraic...