Guest Editor's Preface

✍ Scribed by Jan Van Dixhoorn; Dean Karnopp

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 101 KB
• Volume: 319
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(85)90061-4

✦ Synopsis

In 1979, five years before the present Special Issue, this Journal devoted an issue to "Bond Graph Techniques for Dynamic Systems in Engineering and Biology". As the "1985 Update of the Bond Graph Bibliography" at the end of this issue shows, many new papers and books have appeared in these five years. The new authors' names indicate a growing acceptance of the approach by many people in Europe as well as in the United States. This fact was a reason for us to organize in 1983 at Twente University of Technology (T.U.T.), Enschede, The Netherlands, a 3-day Bond Graph Workshop which united about 40 European workers in this field. This Special Issue stems mainly from their contributions.

We gave both the workshop and this issue the title "Physical Structure in Modelling". It was felt that this points to the major value of bond graphs.