Simulations and Experiments in Design of Transport Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the Applied Sciences Special Issue titled “Simulations and Experiments in Design of Transport Vehicles”.

Transport vehicles are an important means of transporting passengers and goods through countries across the world. The safe and reliable operation of transport vehicles can be guaranteed only by the use of state-of-art, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly transport vehicles. Nowadays, such transport vehicles cannot be designed without undertaking the appropriate procedures. These procedures include simulations methods, which provide an effective, relatively rapid way of designing and predicting the dynamic properties of these transport vehicles. Virtual modelling cannot be the solely used way of verifying the transport vehicles; dynamics. Experiments are very important for researchers and scientists, whether conducted directly through the creation of a real product and putting it into operation or by conducting laboratory tests, in which life-size or scaled models of transport vehicles can be evaluated.

Dynamic analysis represents a vital strategy to find the optimal properties of transport vehicles, so that the operational safety and comfort of passengers can be ensured. The application of autonomous systems, neural networks and artificial intelligence to the design and analysis of the dynamics of transport vehicles is vital to achieving this goal. We intend for this Special Issue to present the latest research findings of simulations and experiments related to the design and dynamic analysis of transport vehicles, as well as be a great opportunity to share such knowledge with both other scientific experts and the public.

Dr. Ján Dižo
Dr. Alyona Lovska
Dr. Miroslav Blatnický
Guest Editors

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• advanced methods in the design of transport vehicles
• new trends in computational methods
• simulation computations
• experiments—laboratory vs. real operation
• transport vehicles
• dynamics of transport vehicles
• track irregularities
• multibody dynamics
• finite element methods
• artificial intelligence
• virtual reality
• neural networks in transport vehicles