Ardshir Guran

Friedrich Pfeiffer

Karl Popp

The dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories worldwide with ever-increasing sophistication of modeling, analysis and experiments. This book offers a collection of contributions from these research centers that represent the state-of-the-art in the study of friction oscillators. It provides the reader with the fruits of a team effort by leaders in this fascinating field.The topics covered include friction modeling, self-excited friction oscillators, homogeneous frictional systems, unsteady lubricated friction, instantaneous contact geometry, impact damping, friction-induced instability and nonlinear dynamics of stick-slip systems, among other topics.This book gives a comprehensive picture of dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems. It also gives an up-to-date account of the present state of the field. It will be of interest to engineers, rheologists, material scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists and historians of science and technology.

Modeling, Analysis and Experiment

Dynamics with Friction

Dieter Guicking

"\berall's work in acoustic and electromagnetic scattering has evoked much interest, in the US as well as abroad, because of its possible practical applications, as well as the theoretical understanding. Many collaborators have been inspired by it, and have now contributed to this volume. The book is an excellent contribution to the literature of Acoustics and Wave Propagation. Professor Guran is to be congratulated for organizing and editing this volume." Prof. Hans A Bethe Noble Laureate Cornell University, 1996

Acoustic Interactions with Submerged Elastic Structures: Acoustic propagation and scattering, wavelets, and time frequency analysis : a Herbert berall festschrift volume

Achintya Haldar

Bilal M. Ayyub

The functionality of modern structural, mechanical and electrical or electronic systems depends on their ability to perform under uncertain conditions. Consideration of uncertainties and their effect on system behavior is an essential and integral part of defining systems. In eleven chapters, leading experts present an overview of the current state of uncertainty modeling, analysis and design of large systems in four major areas: finite and boundary element methods (common structural analysis techniques), fatigue, stability analysis, and fault-tolerant systems. The content of this book is unique; it describes exciting research developments and challenges in emerging areas, and provide a sophisticated toolbox for tackling uncertainty modeling in real systems.

Uncertainty Modeling in Finite Element, Fatigue and Stability of Systems

Horn S. Tzou

Pt. 1. Materials and structures. ch. 1. The piezoelectric vibration absorber systems / Joseph Hollkamp and Thomas Starchville, Jr. -- ch. 2. Self-sensing control applied to smart material systems / Ephrahim Garcia and Lowell Dale Jones -- ch. 3. An introduction to active constrained layer damping treatments / Steve Shen -- ch. 4. Static and dynamic behavior of adaptive wings carrying externally mounted stores / Liviu Librescu and Ohseop Song -- ch. 5. Adaptive design and active composite material systems / Junji Tani and Jinhao Qiu -- ch. 6. Microelectromechanics and functionality of segmented cylindrical transducers / Horn-Sen Tzou, Yumin Bao and V.B. Venkayya -- ch. 7. Thermomechanical modeling of shape memory alloys and composites / Dimitris Lagoudas [und weitere] -- ch. 8. Active-passive hybrid structural vibration controls via piezoelectrical networks / Kon-Well Wang and Steven Kahn -- ch. 9. On-line structural damage detection / Herman Shen -- ch. 10. On material degradation and failure of piezoelectric ceramics / Horacio Sosa -- pt. 2. Systems and control. ch. 11. Near-minimum-time slewing and vibration control of smart structures / Youdan Kim, Jin-Young Suk and John L. Junkins -- ch. 12. Active polyelectrolyte gels as electrically controllable artificial muscles and intelligent network structures / Mohsen Shahinpoor -- ch. 13. Active dynamic absorbers - theory and application / Sanjiv Tewani [und weitere] -- ch. 14. Active vibration sink for flexible structures / Chan-Shin Chou -- ch. 15. Distributed modal-space control and estimation with electroelastic applications / Hayrani Oz -- ch. 16. Markov parameters in system identification: old and new concepts / Minh Q. Phan, Jer-Nan Juang and Richard E. Longman -- ch. 17. Effect of system non-linearities on the modified model reference adaptive control scheme / Hemant M. Sardar and Mehdi Ahmadian -- ch. 18. Extending teach-repeat to nonholonomic robots / Steven B. Skaar and John-David Yoder -- ch. 19. Dynamic analysis and active vibration control of chain drive systems / Chin-An Tan [und weitere] -- ch. 20. Basic concepts of fault-tolerant computing design / Chouki Aktouf, Arde Guran and Oum-El-Kheir Benkahla

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