Full Description
Nonlinear Oscillations is a self-contained and thorough treatment of the vigorous research that has occurred in nonlinear mechanics since 1970. The book begins with fundamental concepts and techniques of analysis and progresses through recent developments and provides an overview that abstracts and introduces main nonlinear phenomena. It treats systems having a single degree of freedom, introducing basic concepts and analytical methods, and extends concepts and methods to systems having degrees of freedom. Most of this material cannot be found in any other text. Nonlinear Oscillations uses simple physical examples to explain nonlinear dispersive and nondispersive waves. The notation is unified and the analysis modified to conform to discussions. Solutions are worked out in detail for numerous examples, results are plotted and explanations are couched in physical terms. The book contains an extensive bibliography.
Contents
Conservative Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems Nonconservative Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Forced Oscillations of Systems Having a Single Degree of Freedom
Parametrically Excited Systems
Systems Having Finite Degrees of Freedom
Continuous Systems
Traveling Waves
References
Index
