IUTAM Symposium on Exploiting Nonlinear Dynamics for Engineering Systems

Tribute to Ali H. Nayfeh (1933-2017).- Henri Poincare (1854-1912) engineer, mathematician, physicist and philosopher.- Basins of attraction for higher-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems: preliminary results on the case study of a sympodial tree.- Dynamic Morphing of Actuated Elastic Membranes.- Nonlinear Dynamics as a Tool in Selection of Working Conditions for Radial Ball Bearing.- On a geometrically exact beam model and its finite element approximation.- Targeted nonlinear energy transfer for electroacoustic absorbers.- Using Symbolic Computational Dynamics as an Aid to Design.- Theorem and observation about the nature of perpetual points in conservative mechanical systems.- Energy Flow Considerations in Nonlinear Systems on the Basis of Interesting Experiments with Three Paradigmatic Physical Systems in Engineering.- Energy harvesting in a delayed Duffing harvester device with modulated delay amplitude.- Rotary speed modulationto improve the stability of steady drilling.- Comparative analysis of NES and TMD performance via high-dimensional invariant manifolds.- Nonlinear dynamics of a planar hinged-simply supported beam with one end spring: higher order resonances.- Helmholtz, Duffing and Helmholtz-Duffing Oscillators:  Exact Steady-State Solutions.- Tree-Like Structures as Hierarchical Coupled Oscillators.- Energy Transport and Localization in Weakly Dissipative Resonant Chains .- Asynchronous modes of beams on elastic media subjected to varying normal force: continuous and discrete models.- Modelling and analysis of bifurcation dynamics of two coupled pendulums with a magnetic forcing.- Dynamics of a System of Two Coupled MEMS Oscillators.- A Multimodal Nonlinear Tuned Vibration Absorber.- Unveiling transient to steady effects in reduced order models of thermomechanical plates via global dynamics.- Non-Linear Free Vibrations of A Hanging Cable with Small Sag.- Analytical and fem modelling of the behaviour of pile in dynamic load test.- Harnessing Geometric Nonlinearity to Design Tunable Twist-Coupled Locally Resonant Metastructure.- Vibrations of rotating thin-walled composite beams with nonlinear piezoelectric layers.- Nonlinear Analysis of Hunting Motion by Focusing on Non-Selfadjointness.