Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications - Applied Mechanics, Vibration Control, and Numerical Analysis

This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in different disciplines of engineering and to a range of scientific problems. For each selected topic, detailed concept development, derivations and relevant knowledge are provided for the convenience of the readers. The topics range from dynamic systems and control to optimal approaches in nonlinear dynamics. The volume further includes invited chapters from world class experts in the field. The selected topics are of great interest in the fields of engineering and physics and this book is ideal for engineers and researchers working in a broad range of practical topics and approaches.

List of contents

Part I. Analytical Nonlinearity.- Chapter 1. Steady-State Vehicle Dynamics.- Chapter 2. On the Razi Acceleration.- Chapter 3. Challenges in Exact Response of Piecewise Linear Vibration Isolator.- Chapter 4. Active Vibration Control for Nonlinear Axially Translating Cable Systems of Multi-Dimensions.- Chapter 5. Nonlinear Initial Value Ordinary Differential Equations.- Chapter 6. The Loss Tangent of Visco-Elastic Models.- Part II. Practical Nonlinearity.- Chapter 7. Optimization of Hood Design to Minimize Pedestrian Head Injury in Impact.- Chapter 8. Post Buckling Large Diameter Thin Walled Tubes.- Chapter 9. Exhaust System Acoustic Modeling.- Chapter 10. Nonlinear Approaches in Three Dimensional Medical Image Registration.- Chapter 11. Pose Estimation of a Dioptric Imaging Sensor with a Circle-Projecting Collimated Laser Moving Inside a Pipeline.- Chapter 12. Analysis of Tide Gauge Sea Level Time Series.

Product details

• Assisted by: Limin Dai (Editor), Liming Dai (Editor), Reza N. Jazar (Editor), N Jazar (Editor), N Jazar (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319356624
• ISBN: 978-3-31-935662-4
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 16 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 592 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 324 p. 230 illus., 134 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Optimierung, B, Optimization, Vibration, engineering, Dynamics, Control and Systems Theory, Dynamical systems, Calculus of Variations and Optimization, Calculus of variations, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization, Control engineering, Automatic control engineering, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Multibody Systems and Mechanical Vibrations