I. Analysis Tools, Bifurcation Theory.- Bifurcations in stochastically perturbed dynamical systems.- Nonstationary responses in two degree-of-freedom nonlinear systems with 1-to-2 internal resonance.- Sinusoidally varying period-doubling bifurcations.- Wavelet approach to mechanical problems. Symplectic group, symplectic topology and symplectic scales.- On the generalized cell mapping.- Bursts.- Dynamics of a quasiperiodically-forced Mathieu oscillator.- Improved Galerkin method in the dimension reduction of nonlinear dynamical systems.- Sequences of global bifurcations and multiple chaotic transients in a mechanical driven oscillator.- Bifurcation of homoclinic orbits in autonomous systems and in chaotic blue sky catastrophe.- Wavelet approach to polynomial mechanical problems.- Jumps to resonance phenomena in nonlinear mechanics: fractal basins, chaotic transients and unpredictability.- Global stable oscillations near unstable equilibrium positions: the hilltop effect.- II. Elastica, Cables and Shell Dynamics.- Homoclinic orbits, spatial chaos and localized buckling.- Nonregular regimes of monodimensional mechanical systems with initial curvature: experiments and time series analysis.- Constrained Euler buckling: line contact solutions.- The role of homoclinic bifurcations in understanding the buckling of long thin cylindrical shells.- Dynamics of a buckled drillstring rotating in a curved oil wellbore.- The complex non-linear dynamics of imperfection sensitive shells.- III. Inelastic Materials, Material Processing.- The dynamics of chip formation in machining.- Chatter identification and control for a boring process.- Coupling and resonance phenomena in dynamic systems with hysteresis.- Maps, traps, and equilibria for a fully dissipative elastoplastic oscillator.- IV. Machine System Dynamics.- Nonlinear dynamics and the design of tuned pendulum vibration absorbers.- Dynamical behavior of chains.- Chaos in offset hydrodynamic rotor bearings.- V. Impact and Nonsmooth Systems.- Dynamics of elastic structures subjected to impact excitations.- A method for finding all possible periodic orbits in piecewise continuous mechanical systems of arbitrary dimension.- Dynamics of the impact oscillator.- Numerical and experimental investigation of nonsmooth mechanical systems.- Steady-state behaviour of a solar array system with elastic stops.- Nonlinear dynamics of mechanical systems with discontinuities.- Displacement potentials in non-smooth dynamics.- VI. Circuits, Control, Cardiac Modelling.- Driven nonlinear oscillators for modeling cardiac phenomena.- Chaos, synchronization and bifurcations in a driven R-L-diode circuit.- Transient global behavior in nonlinear experimental oscillators.- Control of chaos for pendulum systems.- VII. Vehicle and Ship Dynamics.- Delay, nonlinear oscillations and shimmying wheels.- Symmetry, generic bifurcations, and mode interaction in nonlinear railway dynamics.- A traveler's woes: some perspectives from dynamical systems.- Stability and chaos in passive-dynamic locomotion.- On the multi-degree of freedom, nonlinear dynamics of ship motions with application to the broaching problem.- VIII. Fluid-Elastic Problems.- Nonlinear dynamics of aeroelastic systems.- Stabilization of nonlinear hydroelastic structures via random parametric excitation.- Aircraft stability and control: Bifurcation analysis in the design process?.- Global dynamics in gyroscopic and aeroelastic systems.- Chaotic oscillations of a loosely supported tube in a heat-exchanger array in cross-flow.- Stablization of periodic flat-lag dynamics inrotorcraft.- A mathematical model of pendellufl flow in a single airway bifurcation.- The periodic to chaotic water wheel.- Helical waves and nonlinear dynamics of fluid/structure interactions in a cylinder row.- IX. Spatio-Temporal Chaos.- Spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled magneto-elastic system.- Spatially localized and chaotic motions of a discretely supported elastic continuum.- Optimal control of spatiotemporal chaos in coupled map lattices.- Appendix I: Addresses of Authors.- Author Index.
