Appendix IV
International Academic Communion for the Transfer Matrix Method for Multibody Systems
Figure AIV.1 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Werner Schiehlen, President of IUTAM, to give lectures at Stuttgart University in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2006.
Figure AIV.2 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Jens Wittenburg, Head of the Insititue of Applied Mechanics in Karlsruhe University, to give lectures in 1999 and 2002.
Figure AIV.3 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Erwin Stein, President of the German Mechanics Society, to give lectures at Hannover University in 1995.
Figure AIV.4 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Peter Eberhard to give lectures at Erlangen‐Nurnberg University and Stuttgart University in 1999, 2002 and 2011.
Figure AIV.5 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Klaus Thoma, Head of the Ernst‐Mach Institute, to give lectures in 2003 and 2011.
Figure AIV.6 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Dieter Bestle, Head of the Insitute of Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics in Cottbus Technology University, to give lectures in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2011.
Figure AIV.7 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Bodo Heimann of Hannover Univeristy to give lectures in 2006.
Figure AIV.8 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Edwin Kreuzer, President of Hamburg‐Hurburg Technology University, to give lectures in 1999, 2001 and 2003.
Figure AIV.9 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Karl Popp, Head of the Institute of Mechanics in Hannover Univeristy, to give lectures in 2002.
Figure AIV.10 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Friedrich Pfeiffer, Lead Editor of Archive of Applied Mechanics, to give lectures at Munich Technology University in 2002.
Figure AIV.11 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Joachim Luckel, Head of the Institute of Mechanical Control in Paderborn University, to give lectures in 2002. Professor Joachim Luckel is on the right of the photograph.
Figure AIV.12 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Peter Maisser, Head of the Institute of Mechanical Control at Chemnitz Technology University, to give lectures in 2002.
Figure AIV.13 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Lutz Sperling, Head of the Institute of Engineering Mechanics at Magdeburg University, to give lectures in 2002 and 2003.
Figure AIV.14 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Horst Irreties to give lectures at Kassel University in 2002 and 2003.
Figure AIV.15 Overseas report in 2001 about Professor Xiaoting Rui’s lectures in Germany and his making an agreement on behalf of NUST with the President of Erlangen‐Nurnberg University.
Figure AIV.16 The locations where Professor Xiaoting Rui has given lectures in Germany.
Figure AIV.17 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Kluse Zimmermann of Ilmenau Technology University to visit Ilmenau Technology University in 2001.
Figure AIV.18 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited to participate in the IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Problems in Multibody System Contacts 2006. This photograph shows all the Chinese representatives at the conference.
Figure AIV.19 As the only member of the Scientific Committee of Asia at the IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Problems in Multibody System Contacts 2006, Professor Xiaoting Rui presided over the conference and gave a lecture.
Figure AIV.20 As an academic committee member of the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics 2005, Professor Xiaoting Rui gave the keynote address.
Figure AIV.21 As an academic committee member of the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics 2007, Professor Xiaoting Rui gave the keynote address.
Figure AIV.22 As an academic committee member of the International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration and Control 2006, Professor Xiaoting Rui presided over the conference and gave the keynote address.
Figure AIV.23 The appraisal meeting for the transfer matrix method of multibody systems was held in Beijing by the Technical Committee of the National Defense Industy. From the left: Professor Yao Zhijun (China Baicheng Weapon Testing Center), Professor Li XinLong (China Weapon Science Research Institute), lecturer Huang Wenhu (Harbin Techonology University), lecturer Huang Kezhi (Tsinghua University), lecturer Wang Zherong (Chian North Vehicle Institute), director An Haitao (Technical Committee of the National Defense Industy), lecturer Su Zhezi (China Weapon Science Research Institute), lecturer Duo Yingxian(Peking Institute of Technology), Professor Zhao Youli (Hubei Jiangshan Heavy Industry Limited), academic Chen Bin (Peking University), Professor Ma Baohua (Peking Institute of Technology), General Ma Dianrong (Science and Technical Committee of General Armament Department), Professor Huang Kaoli (Technical Institute of Armament), Professor Rui Xiaoting (Nanjing University of Science and Technology).
Figure AIV.24 Professor Dieter Bestle of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus was invited by Professor Xiaoting Rui for a five‐month stay in Nanjing as guest professor to study the transfer matrix method for a multibody system in 2012.
Figure AIV.25 Since 2013 Professor Xiaoting Rui has been invited as the lead guest editor by the SCI indexed Journal Advance in Mechanical Engineering for an annual special collection New Developments in Multibody System Dynamics and its Applications.
Figure AIV.26 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited to visit the Military Technical College in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015.
Figure AIV.27 Professor Xiaoting Rui was invited by Professor Pierangelo Masarati of Politecnico di Milano as a member of defense committee of doctoral thesis and to visit his university in 2018.