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

✍ Scribed by Liming Dai, Reza N. Jazar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Steady-State Vehicle Dynamics....Pages 3-30
On the Razi Acceleration....Pages 31-58
Challenges in Exact Response of Piecewise Linear Vibration Isolator....Pages 59-79
Active Vibration Control for Nonlinear Axially Translating Cable Systems of Multi-Dimensions....Pages 81-115
Nonlinear Initial Value Ordinary Differential Equations....Pages 117-136
The Loss Tangent of Visco-Elastic Models....Pages 137-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Optimization of Hood Design to Minimise Pedestrian Head Injury in Impact....Pages 161-218
Nonlinear Finite Element and Post-Buckling of Large Diameter Thin Walled Tubes....Pages 219-233
Exhaust System Acoustic Modeling....Pages 235-249
Nonlinear Approaches in Three Dimensional Medical Image Registration....Pages 251-280
Pose Estimation of a Dioptric Imaging Sensor with a Circle-Projecting Collimated Laser Moving Inside a Pipeline....Pages 281-298
Analysis of Tide Gauge Sea Level Time Series....Pages 299-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-324

✦ Subjects

Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Control; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization