Nonlinear dynamics of engineering systems
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Nonlinear dynamics of engineering systems
Royal Society, c1992
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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume represents a collection of papers from engineering and mechanics which apply the new geometrical phase space techniques of nonlinear dynamics to practical problems of industrial relevance. The models exhibit rich bifurcational and chaotic behaviour. The papers are highly illustrated, with a minimum of mathematical detail, suitable for a general wide readership. Engineering contributions cover the vehicle dynamics of railway bogies and rolling ships; the design of belt conveyors and turbine blades; and the use of chaotic fluid flow to enhance transportation properties. The last three papers address archetypal mechanical oscillators that arise throughout engineering science: two focus on systems with impacts, generated for example by play or backlash, while the final paper presents a practical criterion for chaotic crises in the resonance of typical softening systems.
Table of Contents
- Bifurcations and chaos in a model of a rolling railway wheel-set, C. Knudsen et al
- mechanics of ship capsize under direct and parametric wave excitation, J.M.T. Thompson et al
- modern design of belt conveyors in the context of stability boundaries and chaos, A. Harrison
- stick-slip motion of turbine blade dampers, E. Pfeiffer and M. Hajek
- chaos-enhanced transport in cellular flows, S.C. Jana and J.M. Ottino
- local and global stability of a piecewise linear oscillator, M. Kleezka et al
- dynamical complexities of forced impacting systems, S. Foale and S.R. Bishop
- Birkhoff signature change - a criterion for the instability of chaotic resonance, F.A. McRobie.
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