1. Preface

   • Alexander F. Vakakis

   Preface Pages: 1 - 1

2. Invariant Manifolds, Nonclassical Normal Modes, and Proper Orthogonal Modes in the Dynamics of the Flexible Spherical Pendulum

   • Ioannis T. Georgiou
   • Ira B. Schwartz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 31

3. Normal Vibrations in Near-Conservative Self-Excited and Viscoelastic Nonlinear Systems

   • Yu. V. Mikhlin
   • B. I. Morgunov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 48

4. Nonlinear Normal Modes in a System with Nonholonomic Constraints

   • R. H. Rand
   • D. V. Ramani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 64

5. Nonlinear Normal Modes of a Parametrically Excited Cantilever Beam

   • Hiroshi Yabuno
   • Ali H. Nayfeh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 77

6. Normal Modes and Boundary Layers for a Slender Tensioned Beam on a Nonlinear Foundation

   • F. Pellicano
   • A. F. Vakakis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 93

7. The Description of Localized Normal Modes in a Chain of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators Using Complex Variables

   • L. I. Manevitch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 109

8. Spatially Localized Models of Extended Systems

   • Ralf W. Wittenberg
   • Philip Holmes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 132

9. Mode Localization in Dynamics and Buckling of Linear Imperfect Continuous Structures

   • Angelo Luongo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 156

10. Dynamics of Relative Phases: Generalised Multibreathers

    • Taehoon Ahn
    • Robert S. MacKay
    • Jacques-A. Sepulchre

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 182

11. Nonlinear Modal Analysis of Structural Systems Using Multi-Mode Invariant Manifolds

    • Eric Pesheck
    • Nicolas Boivin
    • Steven W. Shaw

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 205

12. Localization in Nonlinear Mistuned Systems with Cyclic Symmetry

    • Walter Sextro
    • Karl Karl Popp
    • Tomasz Krzyzynski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 220

13. Mode Localization Induced by a Nonlinear Control Loop

    • Robert T. M'Closkey
    • Alex Vakakis
    • Roman Gutierrez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 236

14. Transition of Energy to a Nonlinear Localized Mode in a Highly Asymmetric System of Two Oscillators

    • Oleg V. Gendelman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 253

15. Application of Nonlinear Normal Mode Analysis to the Nonlinear and Coupled Dynamics of a Floating Offshore Platform with Damping

    • Jeffrey M. Falzarano
    • Robert E. Clague
    • Ravikiran S. Kota

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 274

16. Performance of Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers for Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Systems Using Nonlinear Normal Modes

    • Gregory S. Agnes
    • Daniel J. Inman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 292