It is our pleasure to present this special issue on Multibody Dynamics for Vehicle Systems containing 14 papers that span diverse topics from quad rotor parameter estimation, soft soil mobility, automotive tire models, railway vehicles, traffic flow stability and seating comfort, real time simulations and vehicle model reduction, and sensitivity analyses for design optimization.
Vehicle systems have represented the primary area of interest and application in the multibody dynamics community for a very long time. The complexities and diversity of such systems provide rich platforms for the development of new modeling theory and techniques, new computational approaches and methodologies, and new research directions in general. The literature accumulated over the years in treating various aspects of vehicle systems in a multibody dynamics context is vast and broad in topics covered. While it is not feasible to aim at creating a comprehensive volume of multibody dynamics studies for vehicle systems, by...
