Recent Trends in Applied Nonlinear Mechanics and Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Road Tanker Dynamics Interacting with Liquid Sloshing Dynamics

   • Raouf A. Ibrahim

   Pages 1-47

3. Simulation of Abrasive Wear with a Coupled Approach Considering Particles of Different Sizes

   • Florian Beck, Peter Eberhard

   Pages 49-67

4. Energy Harvesting in a Hybrid Piezoelectric-Electromagnetic Harvester with Time Delay

   • Mustapha Hamdi, Mohamed Belhaq

   Pages 69-83

5. Modeling and Parametric Analysis of a Piezoelectric Flexoelectric Nanoactuator

   • Sourour Baroudi, Ahmed Jemai, Fehmi Najar

   Pages 85-101

6. Dynamics of a Chain with Four Particles, Alternating Masses and Nearest-Neighbor Interaction

   • Roelof Bruggeman, Ferdinand Verhulst

   Pages 103-120

7. Linear Versus Nonlinear Stability in Hamiltonian Systems

   • Ferdinand Verhulst

   Pages 121-127

8. Dynamics and Saturation Control of Rotating Composite Beam with Embedded Nonlinear Piezoelectric Actuator

   • Jaroslaw Latalski, Jerzy Warminski

   Pages 129-152

9. Nonlinear Vibrations of a Shallow Arch Subject to Resonant and Low Harmonic Frequency Excitations Under 1:1 Internal Resonance

   • Abdelbassit Chtouki, Faouzi Lakrad, Mohamed Belhaq

   Pages 153-170

10. Extreme Pulse Dynamics in Mode-Locked Lasers

    • Wonkeun Chang, José M. Soto-Crespo, Peter Vouzas, Nail Akhmediev

    Pages 171-189

11. Periodic and Localized Structures in a Photonic Crystal Fiber Resonator

    • L. Bahloul, L. Cherbi, A. Hariz, A. Makhoute, E. Averlant, M. Tlidi

    Pages 191-201

12. Exploring the Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics of an Orchard Sprayer Tower Moving Through an Irregular Terrain

    • Americo Cunha Jr, Jorge Luis Palacios Felix, José Manoel Balthazar

    Pages 203-213

13. Linearization of Nonlinear Resonances Through the Addition of Intentional Nonlinearities

    • Giuseppe Habib, Gaetan Kerschen

    Pages 215-225

14. Tailoring of Hysteresis Across Different Material Scales

    • Walter Lacarbonara, Michela Talò, Biagio Carboni, Giulia Lanzara

    Pages 227-250

15. Three Ways of Treating a Linear Delay Differential Equation

    • Si Mohamed Sah, Richard H. Rand

    Pages 251-257

16. Nonlinear Damping: From Viscous to Hysteretic Dampers

    • Mikhail E. Semenov, Andrey M. Solovyov, Peter A. Meleshenko, José M. Balthazar

    Pages 259-275

17. Back Matter

    Pages 277-278

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This book presents contributions on the most active lines of recent advanced research in the field of nonlinear mechanics and physics selected from the 4th International Conference on Structural Nonlinear Dynamics and Diagnosis. It includes fifteen chapters by outstanding scientists, covering various aspects of applications, including road tanker dynamics and stability, simulation of abrasive wear, energy harvesting, modeling and analysis of flexoelectric nanoactuator, periodic Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problems, nonlinear stability in Hamiltonian systems, nonlinear dynamics of rotating composites, nonlinear vibrations of a shallow arch, extreme pulse dynamics in mode-locked lasers, localized structures in a photonic crystal fiber resonator, nonlinear stochastic dynamics, linearization of nonlinear resonances, treatment of a linear delay differential equation, and fractional nonlinear damping. It appeals to a wide range of experts in the field of structural nonlinear dynamics and offers researchers and engineers an introduction to the challenges posed by nonlinearities in the development of these topics

• CSNDD 2016
• Structural health monitoring
• Energy harvesting materials and structures
• Time-delayed feedback control
• Vibro-impact dynamics
• Computational methods in vibroacoustics
• Nonlinear thermal instability
• Asymptotic methods in nonlinear dynamics

• University Hassan II - Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

  Mohamed Belhaq

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