Special Issue: Discontinuous Dynamical Systems

Articles (23 in this collection)

1. Autoresonant homeostat concept for engineering application of nonlinear vibration modes

   Authors

   • V. I. Babitsky
   • I. J. Sokolov

   • Content type: Publisher's Erratum
   • Published: 13 February 2007

   • Pages: 461 - 461

2. Modeling of hard disk drives for shock and vibration analysis – consideration of nonlinearities and discontinuities

   Authors (first, second and last of 4)

   • Fook Fah Yap
   • Hendri Harmoko
   • Nader Vahdati

   • Content type: Original Article
   • Published: 30 January 2007

   • Pages: 717 - 731

3. Experimental study of an impact oscillator with viscoelastic and Hertzian contact

   Authors

   • B. P. Mann
   • R. E. Carter
   • S. S. Hazra

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 26 January 2007

   • Pages: 587 - 596

4. Poincaré maps modeling and local orbital stability analysis of discontinuous piecewise affine periodically driven systems

   Authors

   • Abdelali El Aroudi
   • Mohamed Debbat
   • Luis Martinez-Salamero

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 26 January 2007

   • Pages: 431 - 445

5. Autoresonant homeostat concept for engineering application of nonlinear vibration modes

   Authors

   • V. I. Babitsky
   • I. J. Sokolov

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 26 January 2007

   • Pages: 447 - 460

6. A numerical bifurcation study of friction effects in a slip-controlled torque converter clutch

   Authors

   • Firoz Ali Jafri
   • Amit Shukla
   • David F. Thompson

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 24 January 2007

   • Pages: 627 - 638

7. Targeted energy transfers in vibro-impact oscillators for seismic mitigation

   Authors (first, second and last of 5)

   • F. Nucera
   • A. F. Vakakis
   • G. Kerschen

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 24 January 2007

   • Pages: 651 - 677

8. A microslip friction model with normal load variation induced by normal motion

   Authors

   • Ender Cigeroglu
   • Ning An
   • Chia-Hsiang Menq

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 24 January 2007

   • Pages: 609 - 626

9. Time and frequency domain nonlinear system characterization for mechanical fault identification

   Authors

   • Muhammad Haroon
   • Douglas E. Adams

   • Content type: Original Paper
   • Published: 20 January 2007

   • Pages: 387 - 408

10. Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a structure with a friction-based seismic base isolation system

    Authors (first, second and last of 4)

    • H. M. R. Suy
    • R. H. B. Fey
    • H. Nijmeijer

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Open Access
    • Published: 20 January 2007

    • Pages: 523 - 538

11. Rigid body impact with moment of rolling friction

    Authors

    • Dan B. Marghitu
    • Eleonor D. Stoenescu

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 18 January 2007

    • Pages: 597 - 608

12. Experimental and numerical verification of bifurcations and chaos in cam-follower impacting systems

    Authors (first, second and last of 4)

    • R. Alzate
    • M. di Bernardo
    • S. Santini

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 18 January 2007

    • Pages: 409 - 429

13. Dynamical properties of 2-torus parabolic maps

    Authors

    • Xin-Chu Fu
    • Fang-Yue Chen
    • Xiao-Hua Zhao

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 16 January 2007

    • Pages: 539 - 549

14. On the purposeful coarsening of smooth vector fields

    Authors

    • Harry Dankowicz

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 16 January 2007

    • Pages: 511 - 522

15. Analytical investigation of stick-slip motions in coupled brake-driveline systems

    Authors

    • Ashley R. Crowther
    • Rajendra Singh

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 16 January 2007

    • Pages: 463 - 481

16. Interaction between torsional and lateral vibrations in flexible rotor systems with discontinuous friction

    Authors (first, second and last of 4)

    • N. Mihajlović
    • N. van de Wouw
    • H. Nijmeijer

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Open Access
    • Published: 16 January 2007

    • Pages: 679 - 699

17. Sub-harmonic resonance in a nearly pre-loaded mechanical oscillator

    Authors

    • Chengwu Duan
    • Todd E. Rook
    • Rajendra Singh

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 12 January 2007

    • Pages: 639 - 650

18. Experiments on a beam-rigid body structure repetitively impacting a rod

    Authors

    • Elizabeth K. Ervin
    • Jonathan A. Wickert

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 12 January 2007

    • Pages: 701 - 716

19. Bifurcation and chaotic response of a cracked rotor system with viscoelastic supports

    Authors

    • Changping Chen
    • Liming Dai

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 12 January 2007

    • Pages: 483 - 509

20. Experimental study on dynamics of an oblique-impact vibrating system of two degrees of freedom

    Authors

    • W. Han
    • H. Y. Hu
    • D. P. Jin

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 12 January 2007

    • Pages: 551 - 573

21. Alternate pacing of border-collision period-doubling bifurcations

    Authors

    • Xiaopeng Zhao
    • David G. Schaeffer

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 10 January 2007

    • Pages: 733 - 742

22. Switching-induced stable limit cycles

    Authors

    • Ian A. Hiskens
    • Patel Bhageerath Reddy

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 10 January 2007

    • Pages: 575 - 585

23. Lyapunov and LMI analysis and feedback control of border collision bifurcations

    Authors

    • Munther A. Hassouneh
    • Eyad H. Abed

    • Content type: Original Paper
    • Published: 10 January 2007

    • Pages: 373 - 386