A Report on the State-of-Affairs on “Application of Multibody Computer Codes to Vehicle System Dynamics”

SUMMARY

This report gives a preview to a state-of-the-art paper and a special session which are devoted to the problem of the applicability of multibody computer codes to vehicle system dynamics. These activities were initiated at the 11th IAVSD Symposium 1989 in Kingston, CAN, followed by a workshop in Herbertov, CSR, and to be reported at the 12th IAVSD Symposium in Lyon, 1991. The concluding documentation will be a special issue of the VSD journal. The status of this report is what has been achieved up to May 1991.