Simulations and Experiments in the Design of Transport Vehicles: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 764
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Interests: theory of transport means; vehicle dynamics; multibody system modeling; mechanical engineering; design of transport means; operational properties of transport means; analysis of rail and road vehicles’ properties
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Interests: theory of transport mean; structural analysis of transport mean; modeling and simulation; theory and application of computational methods; mobile work machine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue of Applied Sciences entitled “Simulations and Experiments in the Design of Transport Vehicles: 2nd Edition”.
The first edition of this Special Issue had a considerable impact on the scientific community and provided an excellent opportunity to share the latest results of researchers and scholars in the field of simulation computations and experimental tests of transport vehicles.
Transport vehicles are an important means of transporting passengers and goods across the world, and are inseparable part of the transprort infrastructure, regardless of whether they are land transport vehicles or other means of transport that move through the air or water.
Safe and reliable transport operations can be guaranteed only through the use of state-of-the-art, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly transport vehicles. Presently, such transport vehicles cannot be designed without undertaking simulation methods that provide an effective and relatively rapid way of designing and predicting the dynamic properties of these vehicles. Virtual modelling cannot, however, be the only method used to verify the performance of transport vehicles and their dynamics. Experiments are also very important for researchers and scientists, whether conducted directly through the creation of a real product and putting it into operation or by conducting laboratory tests, in which life-size or scale models of transport vehicles can be evaluated.
Dynamic analysis represents a vital strategy for establishing the optimal properties of transport vehicles and ascertaining that their operational safety and the comfort of passengers are ensured. The application of autonomous systems, neural networks, and artificial intelligence in the design and analysis of the dynamics of transport vehicles is vital to achieving this goal. We intend for this Special Issue to present the latest research findings of simulations and experiments related to the design and dynamic analysis of transport vehicles, and for it to be a significant opportunity to share such knowledge, both with other scientific experts and the broader public.
Dr. Ján Dižo
Prof. Dr. Alyona Lovska
Dr. Miroslav Blatnický
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced methods in the design of transport vehicles
- new trends in computational methods
- simulation computations
- experiments—laboratory vs. real operation
- transport vehicles
- dynamics of transport vehicles
- track irregularities
- multibody dynamics
- finite element methods
- artificial intelligence
- virtual reality
- neural networks in transport vehicles
- digital twins in transport means analysis
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