The aim of this International Symposium on Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent developments in the theory and industrial applications of vibro-impact ocean systems. A special effort has been made to invite active researchers from engineering, science, and applied mathematics communities. This symposium has indeed updated engineers with recent analytical developments of vibro-impact dynamics and at the same time allowed engineers and industrial practitioners to alert mathematicians with their unresolved issues. The symposium was held in Troy, Michigan, during the period October 1-3, 2008. It included 28 presentations grouped as follows:

• The first group comprises of nine papers dealing with the interaction of ocean systems with slamming waves and floating ice. It also covers related topics such as sloshing-slamming dynamics, and non-smooth dynamics associated with offshore structures. Moreover, it includes control issues pertaining to marine surface vessels.
• The second group consists of fifteen papers treats the interaction of impact systems with friction and their control, Hertzian contact dynamics, parameter variation in vibro-impact oscillators, random excitation of vibro-impact systems, vibro-impact dampers, oscillators with a bouncing ball, limiting phase trajectory corresponding to energy exchange between the oscillator and external source, frequency-energy distribution in oscillators with impacts, and discontinuity mapping.

• The third group is covered in four papers and addresses some industrial applications such as hand-held percussion machines, rub-impact dynamics of rotating machinery, impact fatigue in joint structures.

  Inhalt
  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 ofVibro-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.