Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications

Section 1: Energy Applications.- Nonlinear Behaviour Diagnosis for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades Subjected to Inconstant Wind Excitations.- Concentrated solar power plants capacity factors: A review.- Section 2: Vibrations and Automotive Applications.- Vibration Analysis of Oscillators with Generalized Inertial and Geometrical Nonlinearities.- Quarter Car Suspension Model with Provision for Loss of Contact with The Road.- Friction Coefficient of Pneumatic Tires and Bitumen Roads.- Solutions for Path Planning using Spline Parameterization.- Section 3: Modern Engineering Applications.- Diagnosis of nonlinear stochastic dynamics of active slider in nanometer spacing.- Formation Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots using an Acoustic Sensor.- Nonlinear Size-dependent Instability of Hybrid FGM Nanoshells.- Section 4: Analytical-Numerical Analysis Applications.- An exact solution technique for impact oscillators.- A semi-analytical solution for bending of nonlinear magnetostrictive beams.- Limted Data Modelling Approaches for Engineering Applications.- Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of The Elastic-Plastic Behavior of Thick-walled Cylinders.- A Complex Variable Method to Predict an Aerodynamics of Arbitrary Shape Ballistic Projectiles.- Extension of substructuring technique in the nonlinear domain.- Index.