1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: 223 - 224

2. Topological methods for transients of driven systems

   • S. R. Bishop
   • F. A. McRobie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 234

3. Three-dimensional shapes of looped DNA

   • Eugene L. Starostin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 271

4. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos of a finite-degree-of-freedom model of a buckled rod

   • S. V. Sorokin
   • D. M. Tcherniak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 291

5. Experimental analysis of the steady-state behaviour of beam systems with discontinuous support

   • E. L. B. Van De Vorst
   • D. H. Van Campen
   • R. H. B. Fey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 308

6. Bifurcations and subharmonic resonances in multi-degree-of-freedom panel models

   • R. Baumgarten
   • E. Kreuzer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 322

7. On beams membranes and plates vibration backbone curves in cases of internal resonance

   • Roman Lewandowski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 346

8. Strange nonlinear behaviour governed by a set of four averaged amplitude equations

   • Jan Awrejcewicz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 361

9. Nonstationary nonplanar free motions of an orbiting string with multiple internal resonances

   • Angelo Di Egidio
   • Angelo Luongo
   • Fabrizio Vestroni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 381

10. An exploration of chaos

    • Giuseppe Rega

    Book Review Pages: 383 - 385

11. Supplement/Meccanica Information

    Events Pages: M17 - M24