IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Problems in Multibody System Contacts

Multi-Rate Time Integration for Large Scale Multibody System Models.- Multiscale Analysis of a Cantilever with a Contact Boundary.- Frictional Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies.- Parallel Load Balanced Particle Simulation with Hierarchical Particle Grouping Strategies.- Analogous Non-Smooth Models of Mechanical and Electrical Systems.- Numerical Modeling of Paper Machine Roll Contact with Regenerative Out-Of-Roundness Excitation.- Discrete Element Method in Simulation of Granular Materials.- A Dynamical Model for the Plane Contact with Rigid Contact Areas.- Multibody Analysis of Axially Elastic Rod Chains.- On a Continuous Transfer of History Variables for Frictional Contact Problems Based on Interpretations of Covariant Derivatives as a Parallel Translation.- First Integrals of Equations of Motion of a Heavy Rotational Symmetric Body on a Perfectly Rough Plane.- Complementary Models for Log Grinding.- The Admissible Set for a Robotic System with Unilateral Constraint.- Contact Models for Very Loose Granular Materials.- A Multigrid Approach in the Numerical Problem of Tangential Contact.- Rigid and Quasi-Rigid Theories of Granular Media.- Lateral Impacts on Flexible Beams in Multibody Dynamics Simulations.- Contact Indentations Determined by a Direct Super Finite Element Approach.- Dynamic Analysis of Intermittent-Motion Mechanisms Through the Combined Use of Gauss Principle and Logical Functions.- Multibody Modeling of Pantographs for Pantograph-Catenary Interaction.- Advances in Discrete Time Transfer Matrix Method of Multibody System.- Impact Studies of Gears in Combustion Engines.- Comparison of Building Collapse Simulation Results From Finite Element and Rigid Body Models.- Computational Analysis and Experimental Investigation of Impacts in Multibody Systems.- Eccentric Flows Registered by DPIV in a Model of Silo.- Regularization of 2D Frictional Contacts for Rigid Body Dynamics.- Micromechanics of Particle Adhesion.- Experience and Simulation in Dynamic