IFToMM Best Research Paper Award to LAETA at EuCoMes 2024

Pedro Areias and Miguel Tavares da Silva, LAETA integrated researchers, are co-authors of the paper that received the "IFToMM Best Research Paper Award” at the 9th European Conference on Mechanism Science (EuCoMes). EuCoMes 2024 took place in Padua from September 18 to 20 and was organized by the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM).

This award-wining paper is entitled "Analysis of the Foot-Ground Contact Using an MSD-FEM Co-simulation Approach" and it describes a novel co-simulation methodology for the dynamic and structural analysis of biomechanical systems, integrating a Multibody System Dynamics (MSD) formulation with fully Cartesian coordinates and a generic rigid body, with the Finite Element Method (FEM).

Full paper available here