The Joint International Conference on Multibody System Dynamics, serves as a meeting point for the international multibody community and provides an opportunity to exchange high-level, current information on the theory and applications of multibody systems. In line with the International Association for Multibody System Dynamics, IMSD, the Joint Conference aims at fostering research on the dynamics of multibody systems and related fields; and to promote international cooperation between scientists and engineers in industry.
The IMSD2018 is the fifth of a series of Joint Conferences, organized every other Year, which started in 2010 in Lappeenranta, Finland, and continued in 2012 in Stuttgart, Germany, then in 2014 in Busan, Korea and, the preceding one, in 2016 in Montréal, Canada. This series of Joint Conferences has been endorsed by IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), to which IMSD is associated as an affiliated organization, and by IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) and has the support of APMTAC (Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics).
The IMSD2018 gathers more than 220 participants from all Continents and representing most of the active research groups in the World. The topics of the Conference include, but are not limited to: Benchmark Problems in Multibody System Dynamics, Biomechanics, Computational Methods and Real-Time Applications, Contact, Impact, and Constraints, Control, Mechatronics, and Robotics, Dynamics of Vehicles, Flexible Multibody Systems, Modeling, Formalisms, and Theoretical Methods, Multibody Kinematics, Multidisciplinary Methods, Applications and Optimization, Sensitivity Analysis, and Parameter Identification. Thematic sessions have been organized around these topics in order to better promote discussion and foster cooperation between participants. Due to the excellence of the research communicated in these technical sessions and on the State-of-Art findings discussed, a Thematic Issue of the international journal Multibody System Dynamics is being organized to include selected works, which will undergo a proper review and revision and a thorough scrutiny for acceptance.
We want to express our appreciation to all members of the Scientific Committees and organizers of the Thematic Sessions who were instrumental in promoting the Conference and ensuring that all relevant topics in, or associated to, Multibody Dynamics are addressed. To all staff members, colleagues and students that were fundamental in putting together the IMSD2018 we thank for the dedicated work without which this organization would not be possible. We want to thank all the authors and presenters for sharing with all the participants their ideas and results and to all participants for making the 5th Joint Conference on Multibody System Dynamics possible. We invite all of you to be an active part of our Conference during this coming week.
We hope that you feel rewarded for your participation in IMSD2018 and that it will be a reference in your scientific activities.
Welcome to Lisbon and to the 5th Joint Conference on Multibody System Dynamics.
Lisbon, June 2018. Jorge Ambrósio
About IMSD2018
Chairman
Jorge A. C. Ambrósio (Portugal)
Steering Committee
The Joint International Conference on Multibody System Dynamics
is supervised by an International Steering Committee:
Alberto Cardona (Argentina)
Jin Hwan Choi(Korea)
Javier Cuadrado (Spain)
Peter Eberhard (Germany)
Paulo Flores (Portugal)
Sung-Soo Kim (Korea)
Subir Kumar Saha (India)
John McPhee (Canada)
Aki Mikkola (Finland)
Dan Negrut (USA)
Corina Sandu (USA)
Hiroyuki Sugiyama (USA)
Yoshiaki Terumichi (Japan)
Michael Valášek (Czech Republic)
Hao Wang (China)
Werner Schiehlen (IUTAM Observer)
Institutional Endorsement
• IDMEC - Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica
• IST - Instituto Superior Técnico
• IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
• IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science)
• APMTAC (Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics)
• KSME (Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers)
• JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)
