Oumar Barry, Pierpaolo Belardinelli, Teresa Berruti, and Radu Serban
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. Aug 2023, 18(8): 080301 
https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062725

​We are delighted to bring to the readers of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) a special issue dedicated to select papers from the 18th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), held during the 2022 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) Conferences.

In the last few years, it has become a tradition to collate such a Special Issue with some of the most interesting and relevant papers presented at MSNDC. At its 18th edition in 2022, MSNDC is the main conference in multibody dynamics and nonlinear control in the United States and provides an international venue where researchers and practitioners present an early glimpse into their highest-quality research and development. JCND was established in 2005, at the initiative of the ASME Technical Committee (TC-MSND) that is also organizing the annual MSNDC conferences. Under the steady and effective leadership of its past (Subhash C. Sinha, Ahmed Shabana, and Bala Balachandran) and current (Bogdan Epureanu) Editors-in-Chief, JCND has become a premier ASME journal which “serves as a forum for the exchange of new ideas and applications in computational dynamics, multibody system dynamics, and all aspects (analytical, numerical, and experimental) of dynamics associated with nonlinear systems.” It is in this spirit that we share with you some of the most exciting work presented at MSNDC-2022.

Held as the first in-person meeting after the global Covid pandemic, the 2022 edition of the IDETC-CIE conferences took place in St. Louis, MS, August 14–17, 2022. With the world emerging from the constraints imposed by the pandemic and with travel safety and security limitations still in place, the IDETC-CIE conferences nonetheless managed to attract a relatively large number of submissions and participants. With this special issue we want to bring to the readership of JCND and to those colleagues of ours who were unable to attend the in-person conference some of the highlights of the MSNDC conference; furthermore, we hope to use this mechanism to remind the community at large of the ASME IDETC-CIE conferences and their continuing impact on the field over the years and encourage higher participation; finally, we aim to benefit JCND and its readership by presenting recent and innovative work in the core topics of the journal.

Selected from the papers recommended by the conference paper reviewers and symposium organizers for the MSNDC Best Paper award, manuscripts considered for this special issue underwent the conference review process, an additional scoring for the MSNDC Best Paper competition, and finally the standard JCND review process. The twelve papers that comprise the final special issue cover a spectrum of topics central to both MSNDC and JCND. They present both theoretical and applied research, as well as both analytical and computational approaches to problems in diverse areas, ranging from frictional contact in nonlinear finite element analysis, to optimal control, nonlinear stability analysis, terramechanics, servo-controlled precision motion, swarm robotics, aerodynamic stability, and to nonlinear dynamics in atomic force microscopy.
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We are indeed very happy to have had the opportunity to organize this special issue. Special thanks to Prof. Bogdan I. Epureanu for giving us this opportunity and to Amy Suski for helping us greatly at every step of the process. It was great working as a team on this project and we are excited to see it come to life.

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A pnh-Adaptive Refinement Procedure for Numerical Optimal Control Problems 
Lorenzo Bartali, Marco Gabiccini, Massimo Guiggiani

Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Rotating Systems Using Lyapunov Characteristic Exponents Estimated From Multibody Dynamics 
Gianni Cassoni, Andrea Zanoni, Aykut Tamer, Pierangelo Masarati

On Practical Aspects of Variational Consistency in Contact Dynamics 
Antonio Recuero, Alexander Lindsay

Non-Smooth Dynamics of Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy 
Pierpaolo Belardinelli, Abhilash Chandrashekar, Farbod Alijani, Stefano Lenci

Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of Precision Motion Stage With Nonlinear Friction Isolator 
Sunit K. Gupta, Ehab E. Basta, Oumar R. Barry

Vibration Analysis of a Nonlinear Absorber Coupled to a Hand-Held Impact Machine 
Oreoluwa Alabi, Sunit Kumar Gupta, Oumar R. Barry

Real-Time Simulation of Ground Vehicles on Deformable Terrain 
Radu Serban, Jay Taves, Zhenhao Zhou

Period-1 Motions to Twin Spiral Homoclinic Orbits in the Rössler System 
Siyuan Xing, Albert C. J. Luo

Identification of Asymmetric Bouc–Wen Hysteresis Under Intense Noise by Only Measuring Acceleration 
Qinghua Liu, Junyi Cao

Evaluation and Modification of Kinetic Gas Collision Theory as Applied to Encounter Rate Dynamics for Multi-Robot Groups and Robot Swarms 
Adam Schroeder, Glenn Lipscomb

Stability Analysis of a One Degree of Freedom Robot Model With Sampled Digital Acceleration Feedback Controller in Turning and Milling 
Andras Bartfai, Asier Barrios, Zoltan Dombovari

Comparison of the Hysteresis Response of Super-Coiled Polymer Actuators 
Josh H. P. Henry, Jacqueline Bridge

J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 050301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054104
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It is with great pleasure that we bring to the readership of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) a special issue dedicated to select papers from the 17th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), held during the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) Conferences (Online, Virtual) on Aug. 17–20, 2021.
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MSNDC is a premier meeting event for professional networking and research exchange across the multibody systems and nonlinear dynamics technical community and provides an international venue where our colleagues present an early glimpse into their highest-quality research. To adapt to the COVID-19 global situation, the 17th MSNDC conference was held virtually so that scholars, experts, and students around the world could still disseminate their latest research during the pandemic.

Enabling Artificial Intelligence Studies in Off-Road Mobility Through Physics-Based Simulation of Multiagent Scenarios 
Aaron Young, Jay Taves, Asher Elmquist, Simone Benatti, Alessandro Tasora, Radu Serban, Dan Negrut
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051001. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053321

An Alternative Formulation for Modeling Self-Excited Vibrations of Drillstring With Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Bits 
Kaixiao Tian, Emmanuel Detournay, He Zhang
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051002. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053407

Singularity-Free Lie Group Integration and Geometrically Consistent Evaluation of Multibody System Models Described in Terms of Standard Absolute Coordinates 
Andreas Müller
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051003. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053368

Model-Based Design and Optimization of Passive Shoulder Exoskeletons 
Ali Nasr, Spencer Ferguson, John McPhee
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051004. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053405

A Study of a Pendulum-Like Vibration Isolator With Quasi-Zero-Stiffness 
Yishen Tian, Dengqing Cao, Yan Wang, Jie Tang, Bolong Jiang
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051005. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053406

A Hybrid Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Formulation for the Investigation of the Stability of Pipes Conveying Fluid and Axially Moving Beams 
Michael Pieber, Konstantina Ntarladima, Robert Winkler, Johannes Gerstmayr
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051006. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053505

Boosting the Model Discovery of Hybrid Dynamical Systems in an Informed Sparse Regression Approach 
Nico Novelli, Stefano Lenci, Pierpaolo Belardinelli
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051007. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053324

Modeling and Parameter Identification for a Flexible Rotor With Impacts 
Stefan Holzinger, Manuel Schieferle, Christoph Gutmann, Manfred Hofer, Johannes Gerstmayr
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051008. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053560

Reduced Order Modeling of Deformable Tire-Soil Interaction With Proper Orthogonal Decomposition 
Christopher C. Sullivan, Hiroki Yamashita, Hiroyuki Sugiyama
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051009. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053592

A Reduced and Linearized High Fidelity Waveboard Multibody Model for Stability Analysis 
A. G. Agúndez, D. García-Vallejo, E. Freire, A. Mikkola
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051010. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053507

Numerical and Experimental Investigations on Cross-Sensitivity Characteristics of Instrumented Wheelset Associated With Longitudinal Force and Lateral Contact Position 
Takatoshi Hondo, Takayuki Tanaka, Shoya Kuniyuki, Mitsugi Suzuki
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051011. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053506

A Polynomial-Chaos-Based Multifidelity Approach to the Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of Online Simulations of Automotive Propulsion Systems 
Hang Yang, Alex Gorodetsky, Yuji Fujii, K. W. Wang
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051012. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053559