Topics in Nonlinear Mechanics and Physics: Selected Papers from CSNDD 2018

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
 Parametric and Autoparametric Dynamics of Ships with Liquid Sloshing Interaction  (Raouf A. Ibrahim)....Pages 1-56
 Dynamics Analysis and Control of the Malkus-Lorenz Waterwheel with Parametric Errors  (Angelo M. Tusset, Jose M. Balthazar, Mauricio A. Ribeiro, Wagner B. Lenz, Thiago C. L. Marsola, Mateus F. V. Pereira)....Pages 57-70
 Nonlinear Characterization of a Bistable Energy Harvester Dynamical System  (Vinicius G. Lopes, João Victor L. L. Peterson, Americo Cunha Jr.)....Pages 71-88
 The Delayed van der Pol Oscillator and Energy Harvesting  (Zakaria Ghouli, Mustapha Hamdi, Mohamed Belhaq)....Pages 89-109
 Reference Dynamics Based Motion Planning for Robotic Systems with Flexible Components  (Elżbieta Jarzębowska, Krzysztof Augustynek, Andrzej Urbaś)....Pages 111-123
 Suppression of Time-Delayed Induced Vibrations Through the Dynamic Vibration Absorber: Application to the Inverted Pendulum  (Giuseppe Habib)....Pages 125-140
 Modal Analysis Investigation of Mechanical Kerr Frequency Combs  (Samer Houri, Daiki Hatanaka, Yaroslav M. Blanter, Hiroshi Yamaguchi)....Pages 141-157
 Characterization of Rolling Element Bearing Data Using the Gottwald and Melbourne’s 0-1 Test and the Hugichi Fractal Dimension  (C. A. Kitio Kwuimy, T. Haj Mohamad, C. Nataraj)....Pages 159-175
 Dynamical Response of a Planetary Gear System with Faults Using Recurrence Statistics  (B. Ambrożkiewicz, Y. Guo, G. Litak, P. Wolszczak)....Pages 177-185
 Analytical Approach to a Two-Module Vibro-Impact System  (Pawel Fritzkowski, Roman Starosta, Jan Awrejcewicz)....Pages 187-201
 Complex Fractional Moments for the Characterization of the Probabilistic Response of Non-linear Systems Subjected to White Noises  (Mario Di Paola, Antonina Pirrotta, Gioacchino Alotta, Alberto Di Matteo, Francesco Paolo Pinnola)....Pages 203-227
 Oscillations Under Hysteretic Conditions: From Simple Oscillator to Discrete Sine-Gordon Model  (Mikhail E. Semenov, Olga O. Reshetova, Akim V. Tolkachev, Andrey M. Solovyov, Peter A. Meleshenko)....Pages 229-253
 Drops and Bubbles as Controlled Traveling Reactors and/or Carriers Including Microfluidics Aspects  (Manuel G. Velarde, Yuri S. Ryazantsev, Ramon G. Rubio, Eduardo Guzman, Francisco Ortega, Antonio Fernandez-Barbero)....Pages 255-276
 Convection in a Horizontal Porous Annulus with Quasi-Periodic Gravitational Modulation  (Jabrane Belabid, Karam Allali, Mohamed Belhaq)....Pages 277-294
 Identification of Non-stationary and Non-linear Drying Processes  (Piotr Wolszczak, Waldemar Samociuk)....Pages 295-309