Dynamics and vibrations. Progress in nonlinear analysis (Q461091)

Nonlinear analysis of vibrations is one of the most important and complicated problems in engineering and applied science. In this book, the authors consider analytic and numerical methods for tackling them, referring to a bibliography of more than 300 books, papers and research reports, many of them written by the authors. The text is aimed to undergraduate students, scientists working in various branches of engineering, and to natural scientists or applied mathematicians. In different chapters, the authors provide an abundance of examples and homework problems. The active reader of this collection can achieve a strong understanding of the nonlinearity of dynamical equations of motion of oscillatory systems, of the required numerical and analytical methods, and the ability to interpret an engineering model and solve the governing equations describing its vibrations.