International Conference on Multi Body Dynamics
1st International Conference on Multi Body Dynamics was held from 24th to 26
th Feb' 2011. The conference was organized under the aegis of IFToMM
(International Federation for Promotion of Theory of Machines &
Mechanisms), Association of Machines and Mechanisms (AMM - India); The
vibrations Institute of India. The presidents of these three bodies Prof. Marco
Ceccarelli, Prof. C.Amarnath & Prof. J.S.Rao respectively were present for Key
note lectures during the Conference. The proceedings were brough out in
collaboration with TVI and with an assurance to publish selected few papers of
the conference in the Journal of TVI - Advances in Vibrations Engineering. TVI
has also given its ISSN numbering to the Conference Proceedings.
The inaugural session of the Conference was held at Peacock hall of our
University, with Dr.
Avinash Chander, Distinguished Scientist DRDO as Chief guest, who later on
assured a joint
R&D project under collaboration of KLU and TVI. The conference witnessed a
series of 12 Key
note lectures, with 5 International & 7 National Speakers, 45 Papers and 3
Software
demonstrations. The entire conference was decided into 4 sessions: Vibrations,
Mechanisms,
Robotics and Multibody Systems which were chaired by a delegate each from IIT's,
IISC or NIT
and a Co-Chair from KLU.
The Conference dinner was hosted on 24th
Feb 2011 from 8.00 PM at Vijayawada Club where
excellent cultural programs depictiy pure Indian Classical and folk culture were
presented for 1 1/2 hour duration followed by dinner