Non-linearity 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.