Vibro-Impact Dynamics of Ocean Systems and Related Problems (Hardcover, 2009)

Nonlinear Dynamics of an Impact Object on an Oscillating Plate.- Elastic Identification of Composite Materials from Vibration Test Data of Thin and Thick Plates.- Foundations for Design of Vibro-Safe Hand-Held Percussion Machines.- Ship Roll Motion under Stochastic Agencies Using Path Integral Method.- Control of Instabilities Induced by Low-Velocity Collisions in a Vibro-Impacting System with Friction.- Hydrodynamic Impact-Induced Vibration Characteristics of a Uniform Euler-Bernoulli Beam.- Random Vibrations with Inelastic Impacts.- Performance of a Bi-unit Damper Using Digital Image Processing.- Dynamics of an Impacting Spherical Pendulum.- Elastic and Inelastic Impact Interaction of Ship Roll Dynamics with Floating Ice.- Periodic Motion Stability of a Dual-Disk Rotor System with Rub-Impact at Fixed Limiter.- A Theory of Cavitation Erosion in Metals Based on the Concept of Impact Fatigue.- Sloshing-Slamming Dynamics - S 2 - Analogy for Tuned Liquid Dampers.- A Dynamic Model and a Robust Controller for a Fully Actuated Marine Surface Vessel.- Random Rocking Dynamics of a Multidimensional Structure.- Dynamic Response of a Marine Vessel Due to Wave-Induced Slamming.- Complex Structure of Periodic Orbits in an Oscillator with a Vibro-Impact Attachment.- Switching and Stick Motions in an Extended Fermi-Acceleration Oscillator.- Vibro-Impact Models for Smooth Non-linear Systems.- Low Frequency Noise and Vibration Analysis of Boat Based on Experiment-Based Substructure Modeling and Synthesis.- Non Linear Dynamic Behaviour of an One-Sided Hertzian Contact Excited by an External Gaussian White Noise Normal Excitation.- On Impacts with Friction in Engineering Systems.- Impact Mode Superpositions and Parameter Variations.- The Evolution of Analytical Treatments of Vibro-Impact Oscillators.- Analysis of Damage Propagation in Single Lap Joints in Impact Fatigue.- Some Non-smooth Dynamical Systems in Offshore Mechanics.- Effect of More Accurate Hydrodynamic Modeling on Calculating Critical Nonlinear Ship Rolling Response.- Discontinuity Mapping for Near-Grazing Dynamics in Vibro-Impact Oscillators.