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Multibody Aspects of Motorcycle Modelling with Special Reference to Autosim

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Sharp, R.S., Evangelou, S., Limebeer, D.J.N. (2005). Multibody Aspects of Motorcycle Modelling with Special Reference to Autosim. In: Ambrósio, J.A. (eds) Advances in Computational Multibody Systems. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3393-1_3

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