Multibody System Dynamics:  Research Activities

This web page has been set up to provide links to individuals, groups, and organizations that are involved in research related to multibody system dynamics.

• Individual researchers
• Research groups and organizations
• Multibody simulation software
• Conferences and workshops
• Other links (journals, etc.)

• Jorge Ambrosio , Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
• Farid Amirouche , University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.
• Kurt Anderson , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.
• Jorge Angeles , McGill University, Canada
• Martin Arnold , Martin Luther University, Germany
• Antonio Avello , University of Navarra and CEIT , Spain
• Olivier Bauchau , Georgia Tcch, U.S.A.
• Dieter Bestle , BTU Cottbus, Germany
• Peter Betsch, Universitat Siegen, Germany
  
• Marco Borri , Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Carlo Bottasso , Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Javier Cuadrado , Universidad de La Coruña, Spain
• Wim Desmet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  
• Vlasenko Dmitry, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
  
• Peter Eberhard , Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
• Paul Fisette , Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Claus Fuhrer , Lund University, Sweden
• Javier Garcia de Jalon , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Michel Geradin , University of Liege, Belgium
• Johannes Gerstmayr , Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
  
• Clement Gosselin , Universite Laval, Canada
• Simon Guest , Cambridge University, U.K.
• Sven Hartmann , Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany
• Edward Haug , The University of Iowa, U.S.A.
• Jean Heegaard , Stanford University, U.S.A.
• Manfred Hiller , Institute of Mechatronics, Duisburg, Germany
• Gregory Hulbert , University of Michigan, U.S.A.
• Ronald Huston , University of Cincinnati, U.S.A.
• Adnan Ibrahimbegovic , LMT Cachan, France
• Jose M. Jimenez , University of Navarra and CEIT , Spain
• J.B. Jonker , University of Twente, Netherlands
• R. Kanapady, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
  
• Hamid Lankarani , Wichita State University, U.S.A.
• Dirk Lefeber , University of Brussels, Belgium
• Ben Leimkuhler , University of Kansas, U.S.A.
• Peter Maisser , Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
• John McPhee , University of Waterloo, Canada
• Andreas Muller, University of Duisburg, Germany
  
• Parviz Nikravesh , The University of Arizona, U.S.A.
• Juan C. Garcia Orden, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
• Martin Otter , DLR, Germany
• Evangelos Papadopoulos , National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Chongwoo (Frank) Park , Seoul National University, Korea
• Linda Petzold , University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
• Jean-Claude Piedboeuf, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
• Subir Saha , IIT Delhi, India
• Jean-Claude Samin, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Werner Schiehlen , Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
• Arend Schwab, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  
• Ahmed Shabana, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.
• Inna Sharf, McGill University, Canada
• Rosario Sinatra, Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy
  
• Zdravko Terze, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  
• Daniel Tortorelli , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, U.S.A.
• Jeff Trinkle, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.
  
• Michael Valasek , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
• Dick van Campen , Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Evtim Zahariev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

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• Analytical and Computational Mechanics Laboratory , University of Illinois, U.S.A.
• Centre for Intelligent Machines , McGill University, Canada
• Computational Mechanics Group ,  CEIT , Spain
• Computational Mechanics Group, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
  
• Deployable Structures Laboratory , Cambridge University, U.K.
• Division of Mechanical Production and Machinery , Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Institute of Mechatronics , Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany
• Institute of Mechatronics , Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
• Laboratoire de Robotique , Universite Laval, Canada
• Laboratorio de Ingenieria Mecanica , Universidad de La Coruña, Spain
• Mechanical Design and Control Systems , National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Mechatronic Lab , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
• Mechatronics Laboratory , IIT Delhi, India
• Motion Research Group , University of Waterloo, Canada
• Multibody Dynamics Group , DLR, Germany
• Multibody Mechanics , Free University of Brussels, Belgium
• Noise and Vibration Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  
• Universal Mechanism Software Lab , Bryansk State Technical University, Russia

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Do you want your research group included?  Send email to J. McPhee with your URL.

• ADAMS by MSC Software, United States
• alaska , by Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
• AUTOLEV , by OnLine Dynamics Inc., United States
• AutoSim by Mechanical Simulation Corp., United States
• CAMeL-View by IXtronics GmbH, Germany
  
• COMPAMM by CEIT, Spain
• Dynawiz by Concurrent Dynamics International
• DynaFlexPro by MotionPro Inc, Canada
• Hyperview and Motionview by Altair Engineering, United States
• LMS Virtual.Lab Motion by LMS, Belgium
• MECANO by Samtech, Belgium
• MBDyn by Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• MBSoft by Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• NEWEUL by University of Stuttgart, Germany
• RecurDyn by Function Bay Inc., Korea
• Robotran by Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• SAM by Artas Engineering Software, The Netherlands
• SD/FAST by PTC, United States
• SimCreator by Realtime Technologies Inc., United States
• SimMechanics by The Mathworks, United States
  
• SIMPACK by INTEC GmbH, Germany
• SPACAR by University of Twente, The Netherlands
• TRUE by True-World, France
  
• Universal Mechanism by Bryansk State Technical University, Russia
• Working Model by Knowledge Revolution, United States

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• ECCOMAS Thematic Conference: Multibody Dynamics 2009,

• EuroMech 495: Advances in Simulation of Multibody System Dynamics,
Bryansk, Russia
18-21 February, 2008
Chairman:  Prof. D. Pogorelov and Prof. W. Schiehlen

• ECCOMAS Thematic Conference: Multibody Dynamics 2007,
Milano, Italy
25-28 June, 2007
Chairman:  Prof. C. Bottasso

• IFToMM-2007: 12th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science,
Besancon, France
17-21 June, 2007
Chairman:  Prof. J.-P. Merlet

• ACMD-2006:  3rd Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics ,
Tokyo, Japan
1-4 August, 2006
Chairman:  Prof. Y. Suda

• WCCM-2006: Computational Methods in Multibody Dynamics Simulation,
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
16-22 July 2006
Contact:  Dr. D. Negrut

• ASME-DETC:  5th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Comtrol,
Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
24-28 September, 2005
Chairman:  Prof. A. Shabana


• ENOC-2005: 5th Euromech Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
7-12 August, 2005
Chairman:  Prof. D. van Campen


• ECCOMAS 2004: 4th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering  ,
Jyväskylä, Finland
24-28 July, 2004
Chairman:  Dr. P. Neittaanmaki

• MBD-MST 2004: 3rd International Conference on Multibody Dynamics: Monitoring and Simulation Techniques ,
Loughborough, U.K.
12-13 July, 2004
Chairmen:  Dr. H. Rahnejat and Dr. S. Rothberg

• Euromech Colloquium: Computational Techniques and Applications
in Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures and Multibody Systems ,
Paris, France
24-27 September, 2001
Contact:  Prof. A. Ibrahimbegovic
 
• Symposium on Multibody Dynamics
Sixth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics ,
Dearborn, MI, USA
August 1-4, 2001
Contact:  Prof. J. Ambrosio
 
• Third Symposium on Multibody Dynamics and Vibration
ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference ,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
September 9-13, 2001
Contact:  Prof. A. Shabana
 
• Special Session on Multibody Dynamics
First M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Cambridge, MA, USA
June 12-14, 2001
Contact:  Prof. M. Borri
 
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Do you want your conference included?  Send email to J. McPhee with your URL.

• Multibody System Dynamics journal
• Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems journal
• ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
  
• Mechanism and Machine Theory journal
• Mechanics of Structures and Machines journal
• IFToMM home page
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