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A weak form of Hamilton's principle as variational inequality
Remco Leine, Ueli Aeberhard
The classical form of Hamilton's principle holds for conservative systems with perfect bilateral constraints. In this paper we derive Hamilton's principle for perfect unilateral constraints (involving impulsive motion) using weak variations. The resulting principle has the form of a variational inequality in Hilbert space.
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