Mechanism and Machine Theory

Editor -in- Chief A. Kecskemethy University of Duisburg Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Lotharstr. 1, 47057, Duisburg, Germany, Associate Editors J. Angeles McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, A. Cardona Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina, I.-M. Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore, J. Cuadrado University of La Coruña, 15403 Ferrol, Spain, L. Cveticanin University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, K. Anderson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, A. Fuentes-Aznar Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, F. Gao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, A. Ghosal Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, B. Goldfarb Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russian Federation, C.M. Gosselin Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, M. Guiggiani Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, J. Herder Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, Netherlands, T. Huang Tianjin University, Tianjin/Beijing, China, K. Kazerounian University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, X. Kong Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, J. Kövecses McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, J. Lenarcic University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, F.W. Liou Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA, E. Papadopoulos National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, V. Parenti-Castelli Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, G. Pennock Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, B. Roth Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, I. Sharf McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, M.M. Stanisic University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, G. Stepan Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, D. Tortorelli University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, H. Van Brussel Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, K.J. Waldron Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, P. Wenger Inst. de Recherche en Communications et Cybernetique de Nantes (IRCCyN), Nantes, Cedex 3, France, H.S. Yan National Cheng Kun Univ, Tainan, China, K. Kawaski Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, L. Notash Queens University, Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada, M Carricato Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, G. Gogu French Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IFMA), Aubière Cedex, France, J.S. Rao Altair Engineering Inc., India, Editors Emeritus F.R.E. Crossley North Branford, CT, USA, T. Shoup Santa Clara, CA, USA, J.J. Uicker Madison, WI, USA, Honorary Editorial Advisory Board R.S. Berkof Cresco, PA, USA, L. Cloutier Université Laval, Sainte Foy, QC, Canada, S. Dubowsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, E. Heer La Canada, CA, USA, P.A. Lebedev St Petersburg, Russian Federation, F.L. Litvin University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA, L. Maunder Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK, E. Peizer Veterans Administration Prosthetics Center, New York, NY, USA, J.S. Rao Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, J.P. Sadler University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, D.S. Taykhelidze Tbilisi, Georgia, H.J. Volmer Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany