Vibro-Impact Dynamics of Ocean Systems and Related Problems

1. Nonlinear Dynamics of an Impact Object on an Oscillating Plate
Scott E. Anderson, Suttipong Paksuttipol, Dale G. Karr

2. Elastic Identification of Composite Materials from Vibration Test Data of Thin and Thick Plates
Emmanuel Ayorinde

3. Foundations for Design of Vibro-Safe Hand-Held Percussion Machines
V. I. Babitsky, I. J. Sokolov, N. A. Halliwell

4. Ship Roll Motion under Stochastic Agencies Using Path Integral Method
G. Cottone, M. Paola, R. Ibrahim, A. Pirrotta, R. Santoro

5. Control of Instabilities Induced by Low-Velocity Collisions in a Vibro-Impacting System with Friction
Harry Dankowicz, Fredrik Svahn

6. Hydrodynamic Impact-Induced Vibration Characteristics of a Uniform Euler-Bernoulli Beam
Nabanita Datta, Dae-Hyun Kim, Armin W. Troesch

7. Random Vibrations with Inelastic Impacts
Mikhail Dimentberg, Oleg Gaidai, Arvid Naess

8. Performance of a Bi-unit Damper Using Digital Image Processing
S. Ekwaro-Osire, E. Nieto, F. Gungor, E. Gumus, A. Ertas

9. Dynamics of an Impacting Spherical Pendulum
A. Ertas, S. Garza

10. Elastic and Inelastic Impact Interaction of Ship Roll Dynamics with Floating Ice
I. M. Grace, R. A. Ibrahim

11. Periodic Motion Stability of a Dual-Disk Rotor System with Rub-Impact at Fixed Limiter
Qingkai Han, Zhiwei Zhang, Changli Liu, Bangchun Wen

12. A Theory of Cavitation Erosion in Metals Based on the Concept of Impact Fatigue
Alan A. Johnson, Randall J. Storey

13. Sloshing-Slamming Dynamics – S
2 – Analogy for Tuned Liquid Dampers
Ahsan Kareem, Swaroop Yalla, Megan McCullough

14. A Dynamic Model and a Robust Controller for a Fully Actuated Marine Surface Vessel
Nassim Khaled, Nabil G. Chalhoub

15. Random Rocking Dynamics of a Multidimensional Structure
Agnessa Kovaleva

16. Dynamic Response of a Marine Vessel Due to Wave-Induced Slamming
Donghee Lee, Kevin Maki, Robert Wilson, Armin W. Troesch, Nickolas Vlahopoulos

17. Complex Structure of Periodic Orbits in an Oscillator with a Vibro-Impact Attachment
Young Sup Lee, Francesco Nucera, Alexander F. Vakakis, D. Michael McFarland, Lawrence A. Bergman

18. Switching and Stick Motions in an Extended Fermi-Acceleration Oscillator
Albert C. J. Luo, Yu Guo

19. Vibro-Impact Models for Smooth Non-linear Systems
L. I. Manevitch

20. Low Frequency Noise and Vibration Analysis of Boat Based on Experiment-Based Substructure Modeling and Synthesis
Masaaki Okuma

21. Non Linear Dynamic Behaviour of an One-Sided Hertzian Contact Excited by an External Gaussian White Noise Normal Excitation
J. Perret-Liaudet, E. Rigaud

22. On Impacts with Friction in Engineering Systems
Friedrich Pfeiffer

23. Impact Mode Superpositions and Parameter Variations
V. N. Pilipchuk

24. The Evolution of Analytical Treatments of Vibro-Impact Oscillators
Steven W. Shaw

25. Analysis of Damage Propagation in Single Lap Joints in Impact Fatigue
George Tsigkourakos, Juan Pablo Casas-Rodriguez, Vadim V. Silberschmidt

26. Some Non-smooth Dynamical Systems in Offshore Mechanics
L. N. Virgin, R. H. Plaut

27. Effect of More Accurate Hydrodynamic Modeling on Calculating Critical Nonlinear Ship Rolling Response
Srinivas Vishnubhotla, Jeffrey Falzarano

28. Discontinuity Mapping for Near-Grazing Dynamics in Vibro-Impact Oscillators
Xiaopeng Zhao

Keywords: Engineering, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Mechanics, Oceanography, Computational Science and Engineering, Computational Intelligence