IUTAM Symposium on Exploiting Nonlinear Dynamics for Engineering Systems

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
 Tribute to Ali H. Nayfeh (1933–2017)  (Giuseppe Rega)....Pages 1-13
 Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist and Philosopher  (Ferdinand Verhulst)....Pages 15-26
 Basins of Attraction for Higher-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Preliminary Results on the Case Study of a Sympodial Tree  (Nemanja Andonovski, Stefano Lenci, Ivana Kovacic)....Pages 27-36
 Dynamic Morphing of Actuated Elastic Membranes  (Andrea Arena, Flavio Massimi, Walter Lacarbonara)....Pages 37-48
 Nonlinear Dynamics as a Tool in Selection of Working Conditions for Radial Ball Bearing  (Ivana D. Atanasovska, Dejan B. Momcilovic, Radivoje M. Mitrovic, Natasa D. Soldat, Nikola Nesic)....Pages 49-58
 On a Geometrically Exact Beam Model and Its Finite Element Approximation  (Enrico Babilio, Stefano Lenci)....Pages 59-69
 Targeted Nonlinear Energy Transfer for Electroacoustic Absorbers  (D. Bitar, A. Ture Savadkoohi, C.-H. Lamarque, E. Gourdon, M. Collet)....Pages 71-80
 Using Symbolic Computational Dynamics as an Aid to Design  (Matthew P. Cartmell, Niloufar Motazedi)....Pages 81-90
 Theorem and Observation About the Nature of Perpetual Points in Conservative Mechanical Systems  (Fotios Georgiades)....Pages 91-104
 Energy Flow Considerations in Nonlinear Systems on the Basis of Interesting Experiments with Three Paradigmatic Physical Systems in Engineering  (Ioannis T. Georgiou)....Pages 105-119
 Energy Harvesting in a Duffing Oscillator with Modulated Delay Amplitude  (Zakaria Ghouli, Mustapha Hamdi, Mohamed Belhaq)....Pages 121-130
 Rotary Speed Modulation to Improve the Stability of Steady Drilling  (Sunit K. Gupta, Pankaj Wahi)....Pages 131-141
 Comparative Analysis of NES and TMD Performance via High-Dimensional Invariant Manifolds  (Giuseppe Habib, Francesco Romeo)....Pages 143-153
 Nonlinear Dynamics of a Planar Hinged-Simply Supported Beam with One End Spring: Higher Order Resonances  (Lukasz Kloda, Stefano Lenci, Jerzy Warminski)....Pages 155-165
 Helmholtz, Duffing and Helmholtz-Duffing Oscillators: Exact Steady-State Solutions  (Ivana Kovacic, Gianluca Gatti)....Pages 167-177
 Tree-like Structures as Hierarchical Coupled Oscillators  (Ivana Kovacic, Miodrag Zukovic, Dragi Radomirovic)....Pages 179-189
 Energy Transport and Localization in Weakly Dissipative Resonant Chains  (Agnessa Kovaleva)....Pages 191-202
 Asynchronous Modes of Beams on Elastic Media Subjected to Varying Normal Force: Continuous and Discrete Models  (Carlos E. N. Mazzilli, Eduardo A. R. Ribeiro)....Pages 203-212
 Modelling and Analysis of Bifurcation Dynamics of Two Coupled Pendulums with a Magnetic Forcing  (Krystian Polczyński, Adam Wijata, Grzegorz Wasilewski, Grzegorz Kudra, Jan Awrejcewicz)....Pages 213-223
 Dynamics of a System of Two Coupled MEMS Oscillators  (Richard H. Rand, Alan T. Zehnder, B. Shayak, Aditya Bhaskar)....Pages 225-233
 A Multimodal Nonlinear Tuned Vibration Absorber  (Ghislain Raze, Gaetan Kerschen)....Pages 235-247
 Unveiling Transient to Steady Effects in Reduced Order Models of Thermomechanical Plates via Global Dynamics  (Valeria Settimi, Giuseppe Rega, Eduardo Saetta)....Pages 249-259
 Non-linear Free Vibrations of a Hanging Cable with Small Sag  (Guilherme Jorge Vernizzi, Guilherme Rosa Franzini, Celso Pupo Pesce)....Pages 261-270
 Analytical and FEM Modelling of the Behaviour of Pile in Dynamic Load Test  (Vladimir Zivaljevic, Dusan Kovacevic, Zvonko Rakaric)....Pages 271-280
 Harnessing Geometric Nonlinearity to Design Tunable Twist-Coupled Locally Resonant Metastructure  (Yitian Wang, Rui Zhu, Xiaoning Liu, Gengkai Hu)....Pages 281-289
 Vibrations of Rotating Thin-Walled Composite Beams with Nonlinear Piezoelectric Layers  (Jerzy Warminski, Jaroslaw Latalski)....Pages 291-301
 Nonlinear Analysis of Hunting Motion by Focusing on Non-selfadjointness  (Weiyan Wei, Hiroshi Yabuno)....Pages 303-316