Research Expertise

•	Computational methods in multibody kinematics and dynamics
•	Biomechanics
•	Vehicle and tire dynamics
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Education

•	Ph.D.	:	EE/Bio-Mechanics, Tulane University, 1976
•	M.S.	:	Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, 1971-1973
•	B.S.	:	Physics, Tehran University, 1964-1968
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Courses Taught  (since 2000)

•	AME 352	:	Dynamics of Machines
•	AME 413a/b	:	Mechanical Engineering Design Lab [supervised projects]
•	AME 4/552	:	Planar Multibody Dynamics with Applications
•	AME 553	:	Computational Multibody Dynamics
•	AME 696g	:	Graduate Seminar
•	BME 4/516	:	Principles of Biomedical Engineering [1/10th of class]
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Employment

•	1984-date	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Associate Professor 1984-90; Professor 1990-date; Acting Head 7/92-12/94
•	1979-84	:	Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa: Assistant Professor 1979-84; Associate Professor with Tenure 1984
•	1976-79	:	Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California: Research Scientist
•	1968-71	:	Shahab-Hitachi Mfg.: Product Design Engineer
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Honors and Awards

•	Honorary Doctorate, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 2001
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Professional Societies

•	SAE	:	The Society of Automotive Engineers (Faculty Advisor, Student Section)
•	ASME	:	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Publications  (since 2000)

•	Nikravesh, P. E., Planar Multibody Dynamics: Formulation, Programming and Applications, Taylor & Francis CRC Press (in press).
•	Arenbeck, H., Missoum, S., Basudhar, A., and Nikravesh, P. E., Simulation Based Optimal Tolerancing for Multibody Systems, Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, IDETC, Paper DETC2007-35706, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.
•	Kim, S., Nikravesh, P. E., and Gim, G., A 2D Tire Model on Uneven Roads for Vehicle Dynamic Simulation, Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, IDETC, Paper DETC2007-34414, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.
•	Nikravesh, P. E., Initial Condition Correction in Multibody Dynamics, Multibody Syst. Dyn. 18:107-115, 2007.
•	Lin, Y. and Nikravesh, P. E., Deformable Body Model Reduction with Mean-Axes, Mech. Based Design of Struc. Mach. 34:469-488, 2006.
•	Lin, Y. and Nikravesh, P. E., Model Reduction with Mean-Axes in Deformable Multibody Dynamics, Proceedings of ECCM-2006, III European Conference on Computational Mechanics (C. A. Mota Soares, et al., Eds.), Lisbon, Portugal, June 5-9, 2006 [CD].
•	Nikravesh P.E., Understanding Mean-Axis Conditions as Floating Reference Frames, Advances in Computational Multibody Systems (J.A.C. Ambrosio, ed.), pp. 185-203, Springer, 2005.
•	Nikravesh, P. E. and Lin, Y. S., Comparison of Reduction Methods for Deformable Multibody Dynamics, Proceedings of the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, IDETC/CIE, Paper DETC2005-84820, Long Beach, California, September 24-28, 2005.
•	Nikravesh, P. E. and Lin, Y., Use of Principal Axes as the Floating Reference Frame for a Moving Deformable Body, Int. J Multibody System Dynamics 13:211-231, 2005.
•	Nikravesh P. E., An Overview of Several Formulations for Multibody Dynamics, Product Engineering (D. Talaba, T. Roche, eds.), pp. 189-226, Springer, 2004.
•	Nikravesh, P. E. and Lin, Y. S., The Use of Principal Axes as Floating Reference Frame for a Moving Deformable Body, Proceedings of ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Advances in Computational Multibody Dynamics, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1-4, 2003 [CD].
•	Nikravesh, P. E., A Survey of Formulations in Rigid and Deformable Multibody Dynamics, Proceedings of the 3rd Flexible Multibody Dynamics Workshop, pp. 81-140, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, 2003.
•	Nikravesh, P. E., Choices of Body Reference Frames in Flexible Multibody Dynamics, The Frithi of Niordson Volume (P. Pedersen and N. Olhoff, eds.), DCAMM International Symposium on Challenges in Applied Mechanics, pp. 225-238, DCAMM, Lyngby, 2003.
•	Nikravesh, P. E., Model Reduction Techniques in Flexible Multibody Dynamics, Virtual Nonlinear Multibody Systems (W. Schiehlen and M. Valasek, eds.), NATO ASI Series: II. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry -Vol. 103, pp. 83-102, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
•	Nikravesh, P. E. and Lin, Y., Body Reference Frames in Deformable Multibody Systems, Int. J. Multiscale Comput. Eng. 1:201-217, 2003.
•	Yi, T. Y. and Nikravesh, P. E., A Method to Identify Vibration Characteristics of Modified Structures for Flexible Multibody Dynamics, J. of Automobile Eng. 215:55-63, 2002.
•	Yi, T. Y. and Nikravesh, P. E., Extraction of Free-Free Modes from Constrained Vibration Data for Flexible Multibody Models, ASME J. Vibr. Acoust. 123: 383-389, 2001.
•	Nikravesh, P. E. Flexible Body Modeling in Multibody Dynamics Based on Experimentally Obtained Data, 6th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, 2001 [CD].
•	Nikravesh, P. E., Rigid-Flexible Multibody Simulation of a Vehicle Based on Experimentally Obtained Data, NATO-ARW on Computational Aspects of Nonlinear Structural Systems with Large Rigid Body Motion, Pultusk, Poland, pp. 117-130, 2000.
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Research Grants  (since 2000)

•	Development of a Web Course for Computational Multibody Dynamics, COEM, 7/00-7/02.
•	Development of a Web Course for Computer-Aided Analysis of Mechanical Systems, College of Engineering and Mines, University of Arizona, 7/99-7/00.
•	Tire Modeling and Vehicle Dynamics, Hankook Tire Co., 10/99-10/02.
•	Integrated Foreign Studies for Mechanical Engineering Students, University of Duisburg, 8/25/03-7/31/06.
•	Development of a High-Resolution Analytical Tire Model, Hankook Tire Co., 8/98-6/02.
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Consulting

•	Ford, GM, Bosch, Altair, SDSU
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