Speed Skating Modelling, by A.L. Schwab, D.M. Fintelman, and O. den Braver --  Contact Modelling in Multibody Systems by Means of a Boundary Element Co-Simulation and a DIRICHLET-to-NEUMANN Algorithm, by János Zierath and Christoph Woernle --  Trajectory Control of Serial and Parallel Flexible Manipulators using Model Inversion, by Robert Seifried, Markus Burkhardt, and Alexander Held --  A 3D Shear Deformable Finite Element Based on the Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation, by Karin Nachbagauer, Peter Gruber and Johannes Gerstmayr --  A variational approach to multirate integration for constrained systems, by Sigrid Leyendecker and Sina Ober-Blöbaum --   Symbolic Sensitivity Analysis of Multibody Systems, by Joydeep M Banerjee and John McPhee --  Efficient Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulations in the Multibody Dynamics Scheme, by Mohammad Poursina and Kurt S. Anderson --  Efficiency and precise interaction for multibody simulations in Augmented Reality, by Lorenzo Mariti, Pier Paolo Valentini --  Modelling of Contact Between Stiff Bodies in Automotive Transmission Systems, by Geoffrey Virlez, Olivier Brüls, Nicolas Poulet, Emmanuel Tromme and Pierre Duysinx.

This volume provides the international multibody dynamics community with an up-to-date view on the state of the art in this rapidly growing field of research which now plays a central role in the modeling, analysis, simulation and optimization of mechanical systems in a variety of fields and for a wide range of industrial applications. This book contains selected contributions delivered at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, which was held in Brussels, Belgium and organized by the Université catholique de Louvain, from 4th to 7th July 2011.  Each paper reflects the State-of-Art in the application of Multibody Dynamics to different areas of engineering. They are enlarged and revised versions of the communications, which were enhanced in terms of self-containment and tutorial quality by the authors. The result is a comprehensive text that constitutes a valuable reference for researchers and design engineers which helps to appraise the potential for the application of multibody dynamics methodologies to a wide range of areas of scientific and engineering relevance.