1: Problems in Vehicle Dynamics -- Typical Non-smooth Elements in Vehicle Systems -- Application Of Nonlinear Stability Analysis in Railway Vehicle Industry -- Closed-form Analysis of Vehicle Suspension Ride and Handling Performance -- Limit Wheel Profile for Hunting Instability of Railway Vehicles -- Low-cost Maintenance Operation for Avoiding Hunting Instability in a Metro Vehicle -- Acoustic Optimization of Wheel Sets -- Measurement, Modelling and Simulation of Curve Squealing of Trains -- Selected Problems of Non-Linear (Non-Smooth) Dynamics of Rail Vehicles in a Curved Track -- On Tangential Friction Induced Vibrations in Brake Systems -- Dry Friction Element With Logical Switch for Numerical Simulation of Vehicle Dynamics and Its Application -- Damper modelling and its implementation in railway simulation program -- Suppression of Bumpstop Instabilities in a Quarter-Car Model -- Experimental Modal Analysis of Towed Elastic Tyres During Rolling -- Modelling and Simulation of Longitudinal Tyre Behaviour -- 2: Dynamics of Non-smooth Problems -- Bifurcations in Non-smooth Models of Mechanical Systems -- Vibrational Displacement Determined by Constructive and Force Asymmetry of System -- Smoothing Dry Friction by Medium Frequency Dither and Its Influence on Ride Dynamics of Freight Wagons -- Simulation of Gear Hammering With a Fully Elastic Model -- 3: Numerical Analysis of Non-smooth Problems -- Discontinuities in ODEs: Systems with Change of State -- Towards Improved Error Estimates for Higher Order Time Integration of ODEs with Non-Smooth Right Hand Side -- Sensitivity Analysis of Discontinuous Multidisciplinary Models: Two Examples -- Smoothing discontinuities in the Jacobian Matrix by Global Derivatives.

The book combines vehicle systems dynamics with the latest theoretical developments in dynamics of non-smooth systems and numerical analysis of differential-algebraic dynamical systems with discontinuities. These two fields are fundamental for the modelling and analysis of vehicle dynamical sytems. The results are also applicable to other non-smooth dynamical systems.