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A collaborative benchmarking framework for multibody system dynamics

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Despite the importance given to the computational efficiency of multibody system (MBS) simulation tools, there is a lack of standard benchmarks to measure the performance of these kinds of numerical simulations. This works proposes a collaborative benchmarking framework to measure and compare the performance of different MBS simulation methods. The framework is made up of two main components: (a) an on-line repository of test problems with reference solutions and standardized procedures to measure computational efficiency and (b) a prototype implementation of a collaborative web-based application to collect, organize and share information about performance results in an intuitive and graphical form. The proposed benchmarking framework has been tested to evaluate the performance of a commercial MBS simulation software, and it proved to be an effective tool to collect and analyze information about the numerous factors which affect the computational efficiency of dynamic simulations of multibody systems.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Spanish MEC under Grant No. DPI2003-05547-C02-01 and the Galician DGID under Grant No. PGIDT04PXIC16601PN.

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    Manuel González, Francisco González, Alberto Luaces & Javier Cuadrado

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González, M., González, F., Luaces, A. et al. A collaborative benchmarking framework for multibody system dynamics. Engineering with Computers 26, 1–9 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-009-0139-0

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