Nonlinearity and Chaos in Engineering Dynamics

Basic Concepts of Nonlinear Dynamics PART I Experiments Chaotic Dynamics and Fractals in Material Removal Processes Transfer of Energy from High-Frequency to Low-Frequency Modes Stability Measurements in Mechanical Experimental Basins and Homoclinic Bifurcation in a Magneto-Mechanical Oscillator PART II Impact and Friction Bifurcations in Impact Oscillators: Stick-Slip Phenomena and Applications On Approximations of Non-Smooth Functions in Bifurcation Analysis Chaos and Bifurcations in a Multi-DOF Beam System with Nonlinear Support PART III Control Chaos in Digitally-Controlled Mechanical Systems Regular and Chaotic Rotations of a Satellite in Sunlight Flux The Control of Chaos by a Dynamical Absorber PART IV Engineering Applications Dynamics and Chaos of Resonantly Excited Structures with Cyclic Symmetry Nonlinearity and Chaos in the Finite Dynamics of Cable Models Chaotic Oscillations of a Fluid-Conveying Viscoelastic Tube Strongly Resonant Hopf Bifurcations and Vortex Induced Vibrations PART V Random Vibration Stochastic Resonance Nonlinear High-Frequency Vibration of Complex Engineering Structures PART VI Mathematical Techniques Knotting Within the Gluing Bifurcation A New Technique for Estimating the Dynamics in the Noise Reduction Problem Stability Numbers for Nonlinear Systems On Analytical Estimates of Safe Impulsive Velocity in the Driven Escape Oscillator Bifurcation and Chaos of Coupled Systems by Fast Incremental Harmonic Balancing PART VII Uses of Chaos Analyzing and Utilizing Time Series Observations from Chaotic Systems Control and Use of Chaos.