Abstract
Multibody system dynamics is nowadays a widely used toolbox in the development of modern engineering science and technology. It provides powerful dynamic design theories, computational and analytical methods, and test technology for innovative engineering applications. In order to systematically show the important effects of multibody system dynamics on the development of modern science and technology and to strengthen the academic exchanges in the research field of multibody system dynamics and its applications, we organized this special issue containing twenty-five papers selected from the contributions coming from Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Netherlands, Pakistan, China, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom, Taiwan, and so forth.
The twenty-five papers selected for this Special Issue are devoted to the following topics: an automatic deduction theorem of the overall transfer equations of the transfer matrix method for multibody systems (MSTMM), the application of MSTMM in dynamics of a multilevel beam system, the application of MSTMM in dynamics of an elastic-plastic system subjected to earthquakes, the application of MSTMM in dynamics of controlled cars, the application of MSTMM in dynamics of a laser gyro strapdown inertial measurement unit system, the application of MSTMM in launch dynamics of a self-propelled artillery system and flight dynamics of projectile, the modeling of trivariate isogeometrics for flexible multibody dynamics, the modeling of hub-tapered beam system dynamics, the formulations and modeling approaches of spatial flexible robotic manipulators, the impact in flexible systems, the modeling and test methods for flexible joint stiffness of a space manipulator, the computational stability and precision, the model and modal reduction techniques for multibody system dynamics, the optimization and control of a swarm of robots, the optimal design of smart systems, the dynamics and control of underwater vehicle and spacecraft formation, the perturbation-finite volume method for stochastic multibody system dynamics, the blast-excavation dynamics, the granular system dynamics, the vehicle-track coupling dynamics, and the human-robot dynamics. Thus, the general fundamental theories and several key engineering applications are covered representing the state of the art of recent intensive and extensive research activities in the field of multibody system dynamics to a certain extent.
The guest editors hope that this special issue will provide some valuable information and guidance for scientists working on multibody system dynamics and its applications in modern engineering science and technology.
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Acknowledgments
Many thanks are due to Professor Edwin Kreuzer from Hamburg University of Technology and Professor Dieter Bestle from Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg for their great unselfish help in organizing the special issue, to reviewers and authors, and to the reviewers for their voluntary works and constructive comments. All of these promoted greatly the projected publication of this special issue.