Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems

TOC: Vocal folds as a vibro-impact system.- Behaviour of granular materials in the field of vibration.- To the general theory of hand-held percussion machines.- Free manifolds of dynamical billiards.- Vibro-impact processes in systems with multiple impact pairs and distributed impact elements.- The impact based transportation process in a vibratory feeder.- The effectiveness of the impact damper with granular material.- Dynamics of gear-pair systems with backlash.- Nonlinear stability analysis of a single mass rotor contacting a rigid backup bearing.- Influence of contact and impacts on the dynamics of an elastic rotor with an elastic retainer bearing.- Wavelets transform in analysis and control of a piezoelectric vibroconverter with impact.- Stability improvement of the vibro-impact discrete systems.- Stability of periodic motions in systems with unilateral contraints.- On the calculation of resonance oscillations of the vibro-impact systems by the averaging technique, etc.