This volume introduces new approaches to modeling strongly nonlinear behaviour of structural mechanical units: beams, plates and shells or composite systems. The text draws on bifurcation theory and chaos, emphasizing control and stability of objects and systems.

This volume introduces and reviews novel theoretical approaches to modeling strongly nonlinear behaviour of either individual or interacting structural mechanical units such as beams, plates and shells or composite systems thereof.

The approach draws upon the well-established fields of bifurcation theory and chaos and emphasizes the notion of control and stability of objects and systems the evolution of which is governed by nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations. Computational methods, in particular the Bubnov-Galerkin method, are thus described in detail.

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Autorentext

Dr. Jan Awrejcewicz is the Chairperson for Science of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Lodz, Poland. He has authored or coauthored over 410 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, 28 monographs, 2 textbooks, 2 edited volumes, 9 conferences proceedings, 8 journal special issues, and 145 other books, commentaries, or unpublished reports. He has also delivered 80 lectures during international conferences and gave 32 invited seminars at renowned universities worldwide. He is a contributer to 45 different journals and to 100 conferences. His papers and research cover various disciplines of mechanics, biomechanics, mathematics, physics and computer oriented sciences. He has authored and coauthered several books previously published by Springer. Dr. Yuriy Pyryev is an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Lodz, Poland. He is a member of the Committee of Fracture Mechanics of Ukraine, and a member of the Dynamical System of the Committee of Mechanics of PAS. He has authored or coauthored 4 monographs, 60 journal papers and chapters in books, 29 proceedings from international or national conferences, and 31 brief communications and reports. His research includes coupled thermodynamics, nonlinear contact problems, and nonlinear mechanics.

Inhalt
Theory of Non-homogeneous Shells.- Static Instability of Rectangular Plates.- Vibrations of Rectangular Shells.- Dynamic Loss of Stability of Rectangular Shells.- Stability of a Closed Cylindrical Shell Subjected to an Axially Non-symmetrical Load.- Composite Shells.- Interaction of Elastic Shells and a Moving Body.- Chaotic Vibrations of Sectoria Shells.- Scenarios of Transition from Harmonic to Chaotic Motion.- Dynamics of Closed Flexible Cylindrical Shells.- Controlling Time-Spatial Chaos of Cylindrical Shells.- Chaotic Vibrations of Flexible Rectangular Shells.- Determination of Three-layered Non-linear Uncoupled Beam Dynamics with Constraints.- Bifurcation and Chaos of Dissipative Non-linear Mechanical Systems of Multi-layer Sandwich Beams.- Nonlinear Vibrations of the Euler-Bernoulli Beam Subjected to Transversal Load and Impact Actions.