Normal Modes and Localization in Nonlinear Systems (Hardcover)

Preface; A.F. Vakakis. Invariant Manifolds, Nonclassical Normal Modes, and Proper Orthogonal Modes in the Dynamics of the Flexible Spherical Pendulum; I.T. Georgiou, I.B. Schwartz. Normal Vibrations in Near-Conservative Self-Excited and Viscoelastic Nonlinear Systems; Y.V. Mikhlin, B.I. MorgunovDAGGER. Nonlinear Normal Modes in a System with Nonholonomic Constraints; R.H. Rand, D.V. Ramani. Nonlinear Normal Modes of a Parametrically Excited Cantilever Beam; H. Yabuno, A.H. Nayfeh. Normal Modes and Boundary Layers for a Slender Tensioned Beam on a Nonlinear Foundation; F. Pellicano, A.F. Vakakis. The Description of Localized Normal Modes in a Chain of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators Using Complex Variables; L.I. Manevitch. Spatially Localized Models of Extended Systems; R.W. Wittenberg, P. Holmes. Mode Localization in Dynamics and Buckling of Linear Imperfect Continuous Structures; A. Luongo. Dynamics of Relative Phases: Generalised Multibreathers; T. Ahn, R.S. Mackay, J.-A. Sepulchre. Nonlinear Modal Analysis of Structural Systems Using Multi-Mode Invariant Manifolds; E. Pesheck, N. Boivin, C. Pierre, S.W. Shaw. Localization in Nonlinear Mistuned Systems with Cyclic Summetry; W. Sextro, K. Popp, T. Krzyzynski. Mode Localization Induced by a Nonlinear Control Loop; R.T. M'Closkey, A. Vakakis, R. Gutierrez. Transition of Energy to a Nonlinear Localized Mode in a Highly Asymmetric System of Two Oscillators; O.V. Gendelman. Application of Nonlinear Normal Mode Analysis to the Non-linear and Coupled Dynamics of a Floating Offshore Platform with Damping; J.M. Falzarano, R.E. Clague, R.S. Kota. Performance of Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers for Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Systems Using Nonlinear Normal Modes; G.S. Agnes, D.J. Inman.