... an angular displacement using θ(x,t). This continuous portion is characterized by mass-density ρ, cross-section A, moment of inertia Jt, length L, Young s modulus E, Poisson s modulus ... Performance, MS thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002. Varanasi, K. K. and Nayfeh, S. A., The Dynamics of Lead-Screw Drives: Low-Order Modeling and Experiments, ... model. Furthermore, it is discussed how to decouple the damping matrix to transform an N-degree -of- freedom system into N one-degree -of- freedom systems, because the advantages that this implies when...