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 J�anos 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-Bl�obaum --   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 Br�uls, 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 Universit�e 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.