Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering Systems

Lyapunov Exponents and Stochastic Bifurcations.- Liapunov Stability Analysis for Control of Flexible Manipulators.- Nonlinear Effects in Dynamics of Controlled Two-legged Walking.- 1/2 Subharmonic Resonance and Chaotic Motions in a Model of Elastic Cable.- Nonlinear Dynamics of the Journal Bearing.- Extended Results of Subharmonic Resonance Bifurcation of Nonlinear Mathieu Equation and Some Experimental Results.- Evolution of Rigid Body Motions due to Dissipative Torques.- Low Dimensional Behavior in Chaotic Nonplanar Motions of a Forced Elastic Rod: Experiment and Theory.- Localized Buckling as Statical Homoclinic Soliton and Spacial Complexity.- Dynamic Plasticity: Structural Drift and Modal Projections.- Nonlinear Vibrations of Carbon Brushes Sustained by Thermoelastic Effects of the Slipring.- Analysis of Dynamical Systems by Truncated Point Mappings and Cell Mapping.- Effect of Constant Transverse Force on Chaotic Oscillations of Sinusoidally Excited Buckled Beam.- Coexistence of Periodic Points and Chaos in a Nonlinear Discrete-Time System.- Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators under Random Excitation...- Fractal Properties of the Bouncing-Ball Dynamics.- Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Vibrations by Normal Transform Theory.- Crises in Mechanical Systems.- New Instability Aspects for Nonlinear Nonconservative Systems with Precritical Deformation.- The Exact Almost Sure Stability for a Specific Class of Non-Linear Ito Differential Equations.- Some Aspects of the Analysis of Systems with Local Nonlinearities.- Stochastic Model for Rattling in Gear-Boxes.- Hopf Bifurcation in the Dynamics of a Rotor/Bearing System.- Random Vibration of Hysteretic Systems.- Spacial and Temporal Chaos in Elastic Continua.- Indirect Measurement ofNonlinear Effects by State Observers.- Chaotic Motion in Nonlinear System with Coulomb Damping.- A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Modal Interactions on the Nonlinear Response of Structures.- Nonlinear Oscillations of Structures Induced by Dry Friction.- Characterisation of Chaotic Regimes and Transitions in a Thermally-Driven, Rotating Stratified Fluid.- Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Discontinuities.- Integrated System for Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics.- Self-Similar Basin Boundary in a Continuous System.- Global Nonlinear Oscillations and Onset of Chaos.- On Symmetry Breaking Bifurcations: Local and Global Phenomena.- The Supression of Chaos in Periodically Forced Oscillators.- Dynamics of Dot-Matrix Printers.- The Approximate Criteria for Chaos in Multi-well Potential Vibrating Systems.- Loss of Engineering Integrity due to the Erosion of Absolute and Transient Basin Boundaries.- Calculation of Stability Characteristics through Interpolated Mapping.- Decay and Resonance of Coherent States.- Analysis and Simulation of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems.- Global Analysis of the Loss of Stability of a Special Railway Bogy.- Bifurcations in a Hard Spring Duffing Oscillator.