Multibody System Dynamics - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Multibody Dynamics
Guest Editors:
Prof. Johannes Gerstmayr, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Michael Pieber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Andreas Zwölfer, Technical University Munich, Germany
Submission deadline: May 15, 2025
By Invitation Only
Description:
The topics covered in this Special Issue will 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; dynamics of vehicles; and machine learning and artificial intelligence.
How to submit
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https:/link.springer.com/journal/11044/submission-guidelines. Authors should submit via the online submission site and select article type "Special Issue on Multibody Dynamics".
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Accepted papers will become immediately available at Online First until the complete Special Issue appears.
Guest Editor Biographies
Johannes Gerstmayr serves as a Full Professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, specializing in machine elements and design. He earned his doctoral degree in Technical Mechanics in 2001 from Johannes Kepler University Linz. His teaching portfolio includes courses in machine and mechatronic design, machine elements, multibody dynamics, robotics, and machine dynamics within the mechatronics program. His research primarily focuses on the dynamics of flexible multibody systems, computational engineering, mobile and modular robotics, and simulation software. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and was previously the developer of the multibody dynamics code HOTINT. He is currently the main developer of the flexible multibody dynamics software EXUDYN. In 2025, he will chair the ECCOMAS Multibody Dynamics conference and has also chaired the ASME IDETC MSNDC conference in 2021. Since 2023, he has been an Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Multibody System Dynamics.
Michael Pieber is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Mechatronics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He completed his mechatronics studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck. He teaches courses in multibody dynamics, robotics, machine dynamics, machine elements, and mechanical design within the mechatronics curriculum. His research focuses on modular robotic systems, particularly those involving triangular and tetrahedral configurations, as well as highly slender structures. He is co-organizer of the ECCOMAS Multibody Dynamics Conference in 2025, he also co-organized the Symposium on High Performance Multibody System Simulation in 2022 as well as the Online Symposium on Flexible Multibody System Dynamics in 2020.
Andreas Zwölfer did his Ph.D. in flexible multibody system dynamics at the University of Innsbruck, his M.Sc. in Advanced Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, and his B.Sc. in Automotive Engineering at the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Graz – each with distinction. Prior to this, Andreas gained extensive work experience as an automotive technician. Currently, he not only contributes to the mission of the Chair of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich as a principal scientist/lecturer and member of the chair’s management team, but is also a visiting professor at Boeing in Washington. Also, time and again Andreas has been teaching as an adjunct professor at various institutions around the world. His research and teaching center on flexible multibody system dynamics, finite element methods, structural dynamics, and model reduction. Andreas has contributed to the scientific community through numerous publications and talks. He has been involved in the organization of several international conferences and regularly reviews articles for leading journals in his field. Additionally, he is a member of ASME’s Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics and serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics.