Viscoelastic Contact in Multibody System Dynamics
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: flexible multibody system; contact dynamics; granular system
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: contact mechanics; multibody system dynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Contact interactions in multibody system dynamics are inherently time-dependent and dissipative. In many systems, viscoelastic constitutive behavior at contact interfaces governs energy dissipation, rate effects, memory dependence, and long-term dynamic evolution, especially in repeated impacts, compliant interfaces, granular assemblies, flexible–rigid coupled systems, and contact-induced degradation.
This Special Issue focuses on viscoelastic contact modeling, theory, and computation in multibody system dynamics, where contact forces are described by physically grounded viscoelastic constitutive laws rather than purely elastic or rigid assumptions. The aim is to advance understanding of how viscoelastic contact mechanisms influence system-level dynamic response, stability, and fault evolution.
Topics of interest include:
- Viscoelastic contact force models for normal and tangential interactions,
- Rate-dependent and history-dependent contact laws,
- Impact and collision dynamics with viscoelastic dissipation,
- Granular and particulate multibody systems with viscoelastic contact,
- Flexible–rigid multibody interactions incorporating viscoelastic interfaces,
- Contact-induced degradation and fault diagnosis driven by viscoelastic contact behavior,
- Numerical algorithms and stability issues for viscoelastic contact formulations.
Contributions must clearly demonstrate that viscoelastic contact behavior is the primary physical mechanism governing the observed system dynamics.
Dr. Gengxiang Wang
Dr. Jie Zhang
Dr. Zhuofei Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viscoelastic contact
- multibody dynamics
- contact mechanics
- impact dynamics
- granular systems
- flexible multibody systems
- contact-induced degradation
- fault diagnosis
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