Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: from Analysis to Optimization
Invited Lecturers
- Jorge Alberto Ambrosio (Instituto Superior tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal)
- 7 lectures on: Flexible multibody dynamics: biomechanics, optimization problems in biomechanics, vehicle dynamics, optimal ride and handling, optimization of flexible multibody systems.
- Wojciech Blajer (Technical University of Radom, Radom, Poland)
- 7 lectures on: Modeling and computational issues in the simulation of multibody systems: differential-geometric aspects of multibody dynamics, dependent and independent variable formulations, accuracy and stability of numerical solutions, useful specialized techniques.
- Peter Eberhard (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
- 7 lectures on: Optimization of multibody systems: stochastic optimization, deterministic optimization, constraint optimization, multicriteria optimization, topology optimization of mechanisms.
- John M. Hansen (MAN Diesel A/S, Copenhagen SV, Denmark)
- 7 lectures on: Kinematics and rigid multibody dynamics: planar kinematics, planar rigid multibody dynamics, Cartesian and rotational coordinates, spatial kinematics, spatial rigid multibody dynamics.
- Daniel A. Tortorelli (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
- 7 lectures on: Sensitivity analysis: adjoint and direct differentiation methods and applications for kinematic and dynamic analyses, computational considerations and applications in optimization, parameter identification, inverse analysis and reliability.