Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Lyapunov Exponents and Stochastic Bifurcations

   • S. T. Ariaratnam, Wei Chau Xie

   Pages 1-8

3. Liapunov Stability Analysis for Control of Flexible Manipulators

   • S. Arimoto, H. G. Lee, F. Miyazaki

   Pages 9-16

4. Nonlinear Effects in Dynamics of Controlled Two-legged Walking

   • V. V. Beletzky

   Pages 17-26

5. 1/2 Subharmonic Resonance and Chaotic Motions in a Model of Elastic Cable

   • F. Benedettini, G. Rega

   Pages 27-34

6. Nonlinear Dynamics of the Journal Bearing

   • J. Brindley, M. D. Savage, C. M. Taylor

   Pages 35-42

7. Extended Results of Subharmonic Resonance Bifurcation of Nonlinear Mathieu Equation and Some Experimental Results

   • Yu Shu Chen, Kaijun Zhan, W. F. Langford

   Pages 43-50

8. Evolution of Rigid Body Motions due to Dissipative Torques

   • F. L. Chernousko

   Pages 51-57

9. Low Dimensional Behavior in Chaotic Nonplanar Motions of a Forced Elastic Rod: Experiment and Theory

   • J. P. Cusumano, F. C. Moon

   Pages 59-66

10. Localized Buckling as Statical Homoclinic Soliton and Spacial Complexity

    • M. S. El Naschie, S. Al Athel, A. C. Walker

    Pages 67-74

11. Dynamic Plasticity: Structural Drift and Modal Projections

    • P. Fotiu, H. Irschik, F. Ziegler

    Pages 75-82

12. Nonlinear Vibrations of Carbon Brushes Sustained by Thermoelastic Effects of the Slipring

    • G. Gabrielli, G. Schweitzer

    Pages 83-90

13. Analysis of Dynamical Systems by Truncated Point Mappings and Cell Mapping

    • Ramesh S. Guttalu, Henryk Flashner

    Pages 91-98

14. Effect of Constant Transverse Force on Chaotic Oscillations of Sinusoidally Excited Buckled Beam

    • K. Higuchi, E. H. Dowell

    Pages 99-106

15. Coexistence of Periodic Points and Chaos in a Nonlinear Discrete-Time System

    • K. Hirai

    Pages 107-116

16. Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators under Random Excitation

    • R. A. Ibrahim, Y. J. Yoon, M. Evans

    Pages 117-124

17. Fractal Properties of the Bouncing-Ball Dynamics

    • Heikki M. Isomäki

    Pages 125-131

18. Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Vibrations by Normal Transform Theory

    • L. Jezequel, C.-H. Lamarque

    Pages 133-140

19. Crises in Mechanical Systems

    • M. Kleczka, E. Kreuzer, C. Wilmers

    Pages 141-148

20. New Instability Aspects for Nonlinear Nonconservative Systems with Precritical Deformation

    • A. N. Kounadis

    Pages 149-157

The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) initiated and sponsored an International Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering Systems held in 1989 in Stuttgart, FRG. The Symposium was intended to bring together scientists working in different fields of dynamics to exchange ideas and to discuss new trends with special emphasis on nonlinear dynamics in engineering systems. A Scientific Committee was appointed by the Bureau of IUTAM with the following members: S. Arimoto (Japan), F.L. Chernousko (USSR), P.J. Holmes (USA), C.S. Hsu (USA), G. looss (France), F.C. Moon (USA), W. Schiehlen (FRG), Chairman, G. Schmidt (GDR), W. Szemplinska-Stupnicka (Poland), J.M.T. Thompson (UK), H. Troger (Austria). This committee selected the participants to be invited and the papers to be presented at the Symposium. As a result of this procedure 78 active scientific participants from 22 countries followed the invitation, and 44 papers were presented in lecture and poster sessions. They are collected in this volume. At the Symposium an exhibition with experiments took place and the movie "An Introduction to the Analysis of Chaotic Dynamics" by E.J. Kreuzer et.al. was presented. The scientific lectures were devoted to the following topics: o Dynamic Structural Engineering Problems, o Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, o Bifurcation Problems, o Chaotic Dynamics and Control Problems, o Miscellaneous Problems, o Experimental and Theoretical Investigations, o Chaotic Oscillations of Engineering Systems, o Characterization of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, o Nonlinear Stochastic Systems.

• Dynamik
• Mechanik
• calculus
• control
• dynamics

• Institute B of Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart 80, Germany

  W. Schiehlen

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