The6thAsianConferenceonMultibodyDynamics(ACMD2012)hasbeensuccessfullyheldinShanghaiChinaorganizedbyShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity,hostedbytheChineseSocietyofTheoreticalandAppliedMechanics,pisionofdynamicsandcontrol,theJapanSocietyofMechanicalEngineers,theKoreanSocietyofMechanicalEngineers,InternationalFederationforthePromotionofMechanismandMachineScienceandInternationalSteeringCommitteeofAsianConferenceonMultibodyDynamics.