IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design, held Aberdeen, UK, 27-30 July 2010

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Noise-Induced Jumping Prior to a Fold: Applied to Climate Tipping Predictions....Pages 3-16
Computation of the Basins of Attraction in Non-smooth Dynamical Systems....Pages 17-29
Two Formulations of Nonlinear Normal Vibration Modes and Their Applications....Pages 31-45
Soliton-Mediated Electron Transfer and Electric Transport Arising from Coupling Electron Quantum Mechanics to Nonlinear Elasticity in Anharmonic Crystal Lattices....Pages 47-62
Dynamics of a Large Ring of Unidirectionally Coupled Duffing Oscillators....Pages 63-72
Real-Time Subspace Tracking for Condition Monitoring Using Karhunen–Loève–Transform....Pages 73-85
Stability of the Elliptically Excited Pendulum Using the Homoclinic Melnikov Function....Pages 87-94
Viscous Damping, Plasticity and Buckling on Large Amplitude Vibrations of Beams....Pages 95-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Motion of Oscillating Two-Link System in Fluid....Pages 109-121
Nonlinear Dynamics of Low-Prandtl Number Rayleigh-Bénard Convection....Pages 123-136
Mixed-Modal Self-Excited Oscillation of Fluid-Conveying Cantilevered Pipe with End Mass....Pages 137-145
Parametric Study for Lock-In Detection in Vortex-Induced Vibration of Flexible Risers....Pages 147-158
Importance of Accurately Modeling Nonlinear Damping in Predicting Parametric Ship Rolling....Pages 159-171
Practical Stability of Rotating Solutions in a Parametrically Excited Experimental Pendulum via Dynamical Integrity Concepts....Pages 173-184
Dynamics, Synchronization and Control of Parametric Pendulums....Pages 185-193
A Combined Semi-analytical and Experimental Approach for Multiphysical Nonlinear MEMS Resonators....Pages 195-207
Vibration Reduction Using Shape Memory Alloys....Pages 209-221
Nonlinear Dynamics and Instability as Important Design Concerns for a Guyed Mast....Pages 223-234
A Problem of Stability in Milling Process of Materials Used in Aviation Industry....Pages 235-247
Dynamical Integrity for Interpreting Experimental Data and Ensuring Safety in Electrostatic MEMS....Pages 249-261
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Suppressing Aeroelastic Instability in a Suspension Bridge Using a Nonlinear Absorber....Pages 263-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Near-Grazing Dynamics of Macro-scale and Micro-scale Cantilevers with Nonlinear Tip Interaction Forces....Pages 281-293
Reduced Inductance in DC-DC Converter Circuits via the Application of Filippov’s Method....Pages 295-311
Dynamics of a Drifting Impact Oscillator with a Conical Profile....Pages 313-321
Bit-Bounce and Stick-Slip in Drill-String Dynamics....Pages 323-335
Analysis of Stick-Slip Oscillations of Drill-String via Cosserat Rod Model....Pages 337-345
Mechanical Oscillator in a Magnetic Field....Pages 347-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Control of Intrinsic Localized Mode in Coupled Cantilever Array....Pages 359-374
Dynamic Control and Ground-Based Experiments of a Tethered Satellite System....Pages 375-386
Chaos Control Methods Applied to Avoid Bifurcations in Pendulum Dynamics....Pages 387-395
A Study on Swing up Control for Rotation of Parametric Pendulum....Pages 397-405
On Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Design in a “MEMS” Gyroscope System....Pages 407-419
Control of Chains of Mass Points in a Frictional Environment....Pages 421-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-454