Vjekoslav Damic
was born on 27. February 1941 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated
at faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Sarajevo in 1963. The PhD in
Engineering he received from University of Sarajevo in 1985. During his professional
career he was employed by different industry research institution and
universities where he was engaged as lecturer and researcher in field of
engineering mechanics, process control, automatic control, robotics, modeling
and simulation. From 1992 he was with University of Dubrovnik as professor of
Engineering mechanics and Vice Rector. He retired in 2010 as emeritus professor
of the University of Dubrovnik. He was also the full member of Croatian Academy
of Engineering. After retirement he is in the status of emeritus of the
Academy. He published two books and more scientific papers in leading
international journals and conferences. His main field of scientific interest
is modeling and simulations of engineering systemwith emphasis on applications
of Bond Graphs and 3D visualization. He is creator of BondSim and BondSimVisual
programs for simulation and visualization of mechatronic systems.

John Montgomery was born on the 1st of July 1936 in Kilmarnock Scotland. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Glasgow with the degree of BSc in 1959. He was awarded the degree of PhD by the University of Nottingham in 1970. He worked for Glenfield and Kennedy, Ruston and Hornsby as a research engineer in the fields of hydraulics and Diesel engines and as a part time lecturer at what is now NottinghamTrent University . He was employed as a full time lecturer there during the period 1964 until 1998. He is co-author of two books He is now retired

Presents computer-aided practical approach to the design of mechatronic systems

Incorporates more user-friendly and easier to use software solutions in the 2nd edition

Offers the powerful simulation software Bondsim

Shows many examples of mechatronic systems to explain the bond graph method

Includes supplementary material: [...]