Introduction

MBDyn is a rather sophisticated, nearly-industrial strenght multibody multidisciplinary analysis code. It was born at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale of the University ``Politecnico di Milano '' as an academic, or research, code. As such, it still lacks some features that are typical of commercial codes, such as a nice and easy-to-use graphical interface and a complete post-processor. As a consequence, users that are accustomed to commercial codes may find its use a bit awkward.

The following tutorials are aimed at giving some initial advice in understanding the input syntax of MBDyn and in interpreting the fundamental output. Along with this practical information, some insights in MBDyn 's logic and analytical bases will be given, hopefully in a simple and clear form. Those interested in the analytical details should browse the scientific bibliography page, while those interested in the details of the implementation should directly read the code.