Address	Saeed Ebrahimi Department of Mechanical Engineering McGill University Canada (till December 2007)
	Phone	++1-514 398 4488
	Email
	Current Home Page	http://me.yazd.ac.ir/ebrahimi/

Field of Research

• Polygonal Contact Model for Flexible Multibody Systems


• Linear Complementarity Problems for Continual Contact of Deformable Bodies


• Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies Solved by Linear Complementarity Problems on Position Level


• Contact Modeling of Meshing Gear Wheels Considering Elasticities between Teeth and Gear Wheel Body


• Real-Time Simulation of Multibody Systems in a Virtual Reality Environment

Publications

• Ebrahimi, S.; Nikkhah Bahrami, M.: Numerical Procedure of Contact Dynamics Simulation. Master's Thesis, University of Tehran, Faculty of Engineering, 2002.
• Nikkhah Bahrami, M.; Ebrahimi, S.; Fathi,M.: Numerical Procedure of Contact Dynamics Simulation of Rolling Disk,10th National Conference of Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineering (ISME 2002), Tehran, Iran, May 2002, pp 141-148.
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard P.: Polygonal Contact Model for Elastic Bodies, Internal Report No.140, University of Stuttgart,Institute B of Mechanics, June 2004.
• Ebrahimi, S.; Hippmann, G.; Eberhard, P.: Extension of the Polygonal Contact Model for Flexible Multibody Systems. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 1, 2005, pp. 33-50. pdf
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.: Contact of Planar Deformable Bodies using a Linear Complementarity Formulation, PAMM Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2005, pp. 197-198. pdf
• Eberhard, P.; Ebrahimi, S.: On the Use of Linear Complementarity Problems for Contact of Planar Flexible Bodies, Proceedings of the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2005, Madrid, Spain. pdf
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.: Rigid-Elastic Modeling of Meshing Gear Wheels in Multibody Systems. Multibody System Dynamics, Vol 16, 2006, pp. 55-71. pdf
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.: Aspects of Contact Problems in Computational Multibody Dynamics, Book Chapter in Multibody Dynamics by J.C. Garcia Orden, J.M. Goicolea, J. Cuadrado (Eds.). pp. 23-48, Springer, 2007.
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.: A Linear Complementarity Formulation on Position Level for Frictionless Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies, ZAMM Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 86, pp. 807-817, 2006. pdf
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.: Frictional Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies, IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Problems in Multibody System Contacts, Eberhard, P. (ed), pp. 23--32, Springer, 2007.
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.:  Aspects of Linear Complementarity Problems on Position and Velocity Level in Normal Impact Formulation of Planar Deformable Bodies, Submitted to the "MMMS International journal of Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures".
• Ebrahimi, S.; Eberhard, P.: A Procedure to Formulate Normal Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies as a Linear Complementarity Problem, "CCToMM Symposium on Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatronics", Canadian Space Agency (CSA), St.-Hubert, Quebec, Canada, 2007.

Talks

• September 21, 2004: Ferienakademie 2004, Structural Optimization, Sarntal, "Multi Objective Optimization".
• October 8, 2004: Dynamiktag 2004, "Polygonal Contact Model for Elastic Bodies".
• March 30, 2005: 76th Annual Meeting of "Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathemaik und Mechanik (GAMM)" 28 March-01 April 2005, "Complementarity Problems for Continual Contact of Deformable Bodies ".
• June 9, 2005: Status Seminar, Institute B of Mechanics, Rossberghaus, Reutlingen, "Continual Contact and Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies using a Linear Complementarity Formulation".
• October 26, 2005: ECMI, 2nd Workshop on Numerical Methods in Multibody Dynamics , Bad Herrenalb, Germany, "Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies Solved by Linear Complementarity Problem on Position Level".
• February 22, 2006: IUTAM 2006 - Multiscale Problems in Multibody System Contacts , Stuttgart, Germany, "Frictional Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies Solved by a Linear Complementarity Problem".
• March 21, 2006: SIMPACK User Meeting 2006 , Baden Baden, Germany, "Contact Modeling of Meshing Gear Wheels Using a Tangentially Movable Teeth Approach".
• July 6, 2006: Status Seminar, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Rossberghaus, Reutlingen, "Computational Contact Procedures in Multibody Systems".
• September 12, 2006: FVV Arbeitkreissitzung, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Stuttgart, "Simulationen von Zahnkontakten mit tangential verschieblichen Zähnen" (in German).
• November 23, 2006: Institutsseminar, Institut für Technische Mechanik , Karlsruhe Universität, "A Cotribution to Contact and Impact of Flexible Multibody Systems".

Supervised Student Theses

• Nguyen-Tuong D.: Lösung von Stossproblemen einer ebenen elastischen Scheibe durch lineare Komplementaritätsformulieung, Studienarbeit STUD-230, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 2006.
• Zhang F.: Ein Vergleich zwischen den Implementierungen von verschiedenen Komplementaritätsbeziehungen für den Stoss einer elastischen Scheibe. University of Stuttgart, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 2006.
• Kessler A.: Dynamics of a Two-Link Flexible Manipulator with Contact. University of Stuttgart, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 2006 (in progress).
• Ajala, O.: Real-Time Simulation and Interaction with SIMPACK. University of Stuttgart, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 2006.