Multibody System Dynamics - Call for Papers: Special Issue on MULTIBODY2023
Guest Editors
Jorge Ambrósio, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Paulo Flores, University of Minho, Portugal
Carlos Quental, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Hugo Magalhães, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Description
The topics of this Special Issue include Aerospace, Medical, and Industrial Applications; Biomechanics; Contact, Impact, and Constraints; Efficient Simulation and Real-Time Applications; Flexible Multibody Dynamics; Formulations and Numerical Methods; Mechatronics, Robotics, and Control; Multibody Kinematics; Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis; Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems & Education, Validation, and Software Development; and Dynamics of Vehicles.
How to submit
All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. Interested authors should consult the journal’s “Submission Guidelines” (this opens in a new tab)at https://www.springer.com/journal/11044/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab).
Articles can be submitted through SNAPP.
All submitted papers will be reviewed on a peer review basis as soon as they are received. Accepted papers will become immediately available at Online First until the complete Special Issue appears.
All submissions will be handled as rigorously as regular submissions.
Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at MULTIBODY2023 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of MULTIBODY2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue/topical collection and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Guest Editor Biographies
Prof. Jorge A.C. Ambrósio, having received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona in 1991, is currently a Professor and head of the Structural and Computational Mechanics group at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author of more than 300 publications, including several books and a large number of papers in international journals in the areas of Multibody Dynamics, Flexible Multibody Dynamics, Vehicle Dynamics, Crashworthiness and Biomechanics. His current SCOPUS h-index is 46 with more than 6000 citations. He has been responsible for several national and international projects in railway dynamics, biomechanics and passive safety. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of Multibody System Dynamics and member of the editorial boards of several international journals.
Paulo Flores is a Professor at the University of Minho, where he develops his research activities in areas of multibody dynamics, contact and impact and computer-aided design. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minho (2005), in collaboration with University of Lisbon and Wichita State University. Paulo Flores concluded post-doctoral studies at the ETH-Zurich, and the University of Arizona. He is the former Chair of the Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics of IFToMM - International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science. Professor Flores is the Editor-in-Chief of one of the top international journals in his field, Mechanism and Machine Theory (MMT). He has been the organizer of many international conferences in his field over the previous years.
Carlos Quental obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Lisbon in 2013. During his doctoral studies he developed computational tools, based on multibody and finite element formulations to study the biomechanics of the shoulder joint. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and of 3 book chapters. In 2015, he was awarded the Professor João Martins Young Researcher Award by the Portuguese Society of Biomechanics. Between 2016 and 2020, he was the representative of APMTAC in the Young ECCOMAS Investigators Committee. Currently, he is a junior researcher at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, where he continues his research on computational Biomechanics, and is an Invited Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Hugo Magalhães obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico) in 2019. His research is focused on Multibody Dynamics aiming to address challenges raised by the Railway Industry. Hugo has integrated several railway research groups in Portugal (Instituto Superior Técnico), in Italy (Politecnico di Milano) and in the UK (Institute of Railway Research). Currently, he is an Invited Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and the Principal Industrial Researcher in MainRail SL. In recognition of his career achievements, namely, research records and participation in National and European Projects, Hugo was selected as one of International Railway Journal’s Young Leaders in Rail Award winners for 2022.