Dynamical Systems and Control

PART 1 A Geometric Approach to the Mechanics of Densely Folded Media Luiz Bevilacqua On a General Principle of Mechanics and its Application to General Non-Ideal Nonholonomic Constraints F.E.Udwadia Mathematical Analysis of Vibrations of Nonhomogeneous Filament with One End Load Marianna A. Shubov Expanded Point Mapping Analysis of Periodic Systems Henryk Flashner and Michael Golat A Preliminary Analysis of the Phase Portrait's Structure of a Nonlinear Pendulum-Mechanical System Using the Perturbed Hamiltonian Formulation Debora Belato, Hans Ingo Weber, and Jose Manoel Balthazar A Review of Rigid Body Collision Models in the Plane Edson Cataldo and Rubens Sampaio PART 2 Optimal Round-Trip Earth-Mars Trajectories for Robotic Flight and Manned Flight A.Miele, T.Wang and S.Mancuso Aircraft Take-Off in Wind Shear: a Viability Approach N.Seube, R.Moitie and G.Leitmann Stability of Torsional and Vertical Motion of Suspension Bridges to Stochastic Wind Forces N.U. Ahmed Time Delayed Control of Structural Systems Firdaus E.Udwadia, Hubertus F. Bremen, R.Kumar, and M. Hosseini Robust Real and Discrete-Time Control of a Steer-by-Wire System in Cars Eduard Reithmeier Optimal Placement of Piezoelectric Sensor/Actuators for Smart Structures Vibration Control Vicente Lopes, Jr., Valder Steffen, Jr., and Daniel J. Inman A Review of New Vibration Issues Due to Non-Ideal Energy Sources J.M.Balthazar, R.M.L.R.F.Brasil, H.I.Weber. A.Fenili, D.Belto, J.L.P.Felix, and F.J.Garzelli Identification of Flexural Stiffness Parameters of Beams Jose Joao de Espindola and Joao Morais da Silva Neto Active Noise Control Caused by Airflow through a Rectangular Duct Seyyed Said Dana, Naor Moraes Melo, and Simplicio Arnaud da Silva Dynamical Features of an Autonomous Two-Body Floating System Helio Mitio Morishita and Jesse Rebello de Souza Jr. Dynamics and Control of a Flexible Rotating Arm through the Movement of a Sliding Mass Agenor de Toledo Fleury and Frederico Ricardo Ferreira de Oliveira Measuring Chaos in Gravitational Waves Humberto Piccoli and Fernando Kokubun PART 3: Estimation of the Attractor for an Uncertain Epidemic Model - E.Cruck, N.Seube and G.Leitmann Liar Paradox Viewed by the Fuzzy Logic Theory Ye-Hwa Chen Pareto-Improving Cheating in an Economic Policy Game Christophe Deissenberg and Francisco Alvarez Gonzales Dynamic Investment Behavior Taking into Account Ageing of the Capital Goods Gustav Feichtinger, Richard F. Hartl, Peter Kort, and Vladimir Veliov A Mathematical Approach towards the Issue of Synchronization in Neocortical Neural Networks R. Stoop and D. Blank Optimal Control of Human Posture Using Algorithms Based on Consistent Approximations Theory Luciano Luporini Menegaldo, Agenor de Toledo Fleury, and Hans Ingo Weber