Chrono 3.0.0 training material

The following sets of slides contain material used in various week-long Chrono tutorials offered in the past. These slides refer to the API of Chrono release 3.0.0.

Introductory Material

• Overview of Chrono pdf

• C++ primer pdf

• GitHub primer pdf

• CMake primer pdf

• OVerview of available Chrono demos pdf

Multibody Dynamics with Chrono

• General concepts of multibody dynamics pdf

• Basic multibody system modeling support in Chrono pdf

• Visualization options in Chrono pdf

Contact and Friction, Solution Methods

• Handling of frictional contact in Chrono pdf

• Collision detection in Chrono pdf

• Solution methods: time steppers and linear solvers pdf

Finite Element Analysys (Chrono::FEA)

• ANCF support for flexible body dynamics in Chrono pdf

• Co-rotational FEA in Chrono pdf

• Validation of the Chrono FEA solution pdf

• Chrono FEA API pdf

Vehicle Modeling and Simulation (Chrono::Vehicle)

• Overview of Chrono::Vehicle pdf

• Chrono::Vehicle, Wheeled Vehicles pdf

• Chrono::Vehicle, Tracked Vehicles pdf

Other Chrono modules

• Chrono::Parallel and support for granular dynamics pdf

• Chrono::Matlab and interfacing to Matlab/Simulink pdf

• Chrono::Python and interfacing to Python pdf

• Chrono::Solidworks plugin pdf

• Support for robotics in Chrono pdf

• Looking ahead: Autonomous vehicle simulation support in Chrono pdf

• Chrono support for multi-physics pdf

Hands-on Exercises

The following hands-on exercises use code available in the GitHub repository chrono-tutorials

• Chrono core exercises pdf

• Chrono::FEA exercises pdf

• Chrono::Vehicle exercises pdf