Multibody Systems with Flexible Elements, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 1340
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Interests: mechanics; vibrations; elasticity; composite materials; analytical mechanics
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Interests: differential equations; partial differential equations; equations of evolution; integral equations; mixed initial-boundary value problems for PDE; termoelasticity; media with microstretch; environments goals; nonlinear problems
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Interests: dynamic and multibody systems; computational mechanics; machine learning in mechanical engineering; mechanics of composite materials; advanced materials modelling and simulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Multibody systems with flexible elements represent mechanical systems made by many elastic (and rigid) bodies interconnected meeting a functional, technical or biological assembly. The displacements of each or some of the elements of the system are generally large and cannot be neglected in mechanical modeling. The systematic treatment of the dynamic behavior of interconnected bodies has led to an important number of formalisms for multibody systems within mechanics. At present, this formalism is used in large engineering fields, especially in robotics and vehicle dynamics. The formalism of multicorp systems offers a means of algorithmic analysis, assisted by the computer, and a means of simulating and optimizing an arbitrary movement of a possible high number of elastic bodies in the connection. The domain where researchers apply these methods are robotics, simulation in the dynamics of vehicles, biomechanics, aerospace engineering (helicopters, the behavior of cars in the gravitational field), engines with internal combustion, gearboxes, transmissions, mechanisms, the cellulose industry, simulation of particle behavior (granulated particles and molecules), dynamic simulation, military applications, computer games, medicine, and rehabilitation.
Isotropy and homogeneity of the Euclidian space and the homogeneity of the time leads to conservation laws and symmetry of differential evolution equations that describe the behavior of such mechanical systems.
Prof. Dr. Sorin Vlase
Prof. Dr. Marin Marin
Prof. Dr. Maria Luminița Scutaru
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multibody systems
- robotics
- vehicle dynamics
- Euclidian space
- symmetry/asymmetry
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