1. Preface for the thematic issue: IMSD 2012

   • Peter Eberhard
   • Pascal Ziegler

   OriginalPaper 21 May 2013 Pages: 117 - 117

2. Comparison between ANCF and B-spline surfaces

   • Aki Mikkola
   • Ahmed A. Shabana
   • Jesus R. Jimenez-Octavio

   OriginalPaper 07 March 2013 Pages: 119 - 138

   

3. Isogeometric shell discretizations for flexible multibody dynamics

   • Anmol Goyal
   • Michael R. Dörfel
   • Anh-Vu Vuong

   OriginalPaper 31 January 2013 Pages: 139 - 151

   

4. Solvability of reactions in rigid multibody systems with redundant nonholonomic constraints

   • Marek Wojtyra
   • Janusz Frączek

   OriginalPaper Open access 05 March 2013 Pages: 153 - 171

   

5. A method for computing the Hessian tensor of loop closing conditions in multibody systems

   • Makoto Iwamura
   • Masafumi Nagao

   OriginalPaper 06 December 2012 Pages: 173 - 184

   

6. A new switching strategy for addressing Euler parameters in dynamic modeling and simulation of rigid multibody systems

   • Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani
   • Alan Bowling

   OriginalPaper 08 November 2012 Pages: 185 - 197

   

7. Kurt Magnus: a pioneer of multibody system dynamics

   • P. C. Müller

   OriginalPaper 03 April 2013 Pages: 199 - 207

   

8. On the applicability of static modes switching in gear contact applications

   • Tommaso Tamarozzi
   • Pascal Ziegler
   • Wim Desmet

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2013 Pages: 209 - 219

   

9. Physics-based model of a stroke-dependent shock absorber

   • Torsten Funke
   • Dieter Bestle

   OriginalPaper 31 January 2013 Pages: 221 - 232

   

10. Dynamics in lithographic projection objectives

    • Nicolai Wengert
    • Marwène Nefzi
    • Bernhard Geuppert

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2013 Pages: 233 - 245