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THE DYNAMICS OF COSSERAT NETS J. GRATUS AND R. W. TUCKER Received 22 October 2001 and in revised form 10 July 2002 A formulation of the dynamics of a collection of connected simple 1- dimensional Cosserat continua and rigid bodies is presented in terms of sections of an SO(3) fibration over a 1-dimensional net. A large class of junction conditions is considered in a unified framework. All the equa- tions of motion and junction conditions are derived as extrema of a con- strained variational principle on the net and are analysed perturbatively for structures with Kirchhoff constitutive properties. The whole discus- sion is based on the notion of a Cosserat net and its contractions obtained by taking certain limits that transform Cosserat elements to rigid struc- tures. Generalisations are briefly discussed within this framework. 1. Introduction Branched structures abound both in engineering and the natural world. A large class involves elastic members that can be approximated by inter- connected 1-dimensional rods or strings. These include man-made as- semblies such as bridges, oil rigs, antennae, and micromachines and biodynamic structures such as arterial pathways, trees, cobwebs, and macromolecules. In these, tube-like members may be directly connected together at nodes in space or to the boundaries of fixed or movable rigid bodies of arbitrary shape [3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21]. The elastodynamics of slender structures is a mature branch of mathemati- cal physics [2] and is being increasingly recognised as a useful tool in Engineering and Biology. The simple Cosserat description of an isolated slender member offers a particularly concise and self-contained elastic c Copyright 2003 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics 2003:4 (2003) 187–226 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 74K30, 74K10 URL: /10.1155/S1110757 188 The dynamics of Cosse