Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering Systems: IUTAM Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany, August 21–25, 1989

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Lyapunov Exponents and Stochastic Bifurcations....Pages 1-8
Liapunov Stability Analysis for Control of Flexible Manipulators....Pages 9-16
Nonlinear Effects in Dynamics of Controlled Two-legged Walking....Pages 17-26
1/2 Subharmonic Resonance and Chaotic Motions in a Model of Elastic Cable....Pages 27-34
Nonlinear Dynamics of the Journal Bearing....Pages 35-42
Extended Results of Subharmonic Resonance Bifurcation of Nonlinear Mathieu Equation and Some Experimental Results....Pages 43-50
Evolution of Rigid Body Motions due to Dissipative Torques....Pages 51-57
Low Dimensional Behavior in Chaotic Nonplanar Motions of a Forced Elastic Rod: Experiment and Theory....Pages 59-66
Localized Buckling as Statical Homoclinic Soliton and Spacial Complexity....Pages 67-74
Dynamic Plasticity: Structural Drift and Modal Projections....Pages 75-82
Nonlinear Vibrations of Carbon Brushes Sustained by Thermoelastic Effects of the Slipring....Pages 83-90
Analysis of Dynamical Systems by Truncated Point Mappings and Cell Mapping....Pages 91-98
Effect of Constant Transverse Force on Chaotic Oscillations of Sinusoidally Excited Buckled Beam....Pages 99-106
Coexistence of Periodic Points and Chaos in a Nonlinear Discrete-Time System....Pages 107-116
Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators under Random Excitation....Pages 117-124
Fractal Properties of the Bouncing-Ball Dynamics....Pages 125-131
Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Vibrations by Normal Transform Theory....Pages 133-140
Crises in Mechanical Systems....Pages 141-148
New Instability Aspects for Nonlinear Nonconservative Systems with Precritical Deformation....Pages 149-157
The Exact Almost Sure Stability for a Specific Class of Non-Linear Ito Differential Equations....Pages 159-164
Some Aspects of the Analysis of Systems with Local Nonlinearities....Pages 165-172
Stochastic Model for Rattling in Gear-Boxes....Pages 173-180
Hopf Bifurcation in the Dynamics of a Rotor/Bearing System....Pages 181-188
Random Vibration of Hysteretic Systems....Pages 189-196
Spacial and Temporal Chaos in Elastic Continua....Pages 197-204
Indirect Measurement of Nonlinear Effects by State Observers....Pages 205-215
Chaotic Motion in Nonlinear System with Coulomb Damping....Pages 217-224
A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Modal Interactions on the Nonlinear Response of Structures....Pages 225-232
Nonlinear Oscillations of Structures Induced by Dry Friction....Pages 233-240
Characterisation of Chaotic Regimes and Transitions in a Thermally-Driven, Rotating Stratified Fluid....Pages 241-248
Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Discontinuities....Pages 249-256
Integrated System for Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics....Pages 257-263
Self-Similar Basin Boundary in a Continuous System....Pages 265-273
Global Nonlinear Oscillations and Onset of Chaos....Pages 275-280
On Symmetry Breaking Bifurcations: Local and Global Phenomena....Pages 281-288
The Supression of Chaos in Periodically Forced Oscillators....Pages 289-296
Dynamics of Dot-Matrix Printers....Pages 297-304
The Approximate Criteria for Chaos in Multi-well Potential Vibrating Systems....Pages 305-312
Loss of Engineering Integrity due to the Erosion of Absolute and Transient Basin Boundaries....Pages 313-320
Calculation of Stability Characteristics through Interpolated Mapping....Pages 321-328
Decay and Resonance of Coherent States....Pages 329-335
Analysis and Simulation of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems....Pages 337-344
Global Analysis of the Loss of Stability of a Special Railway Bogy....Pages 345-353
Bifurcations in a Hard Spring Duffing Oscillator....Pages 355-362