Chaos in Structural Mechanics (Understanding Complex Systems) - Softcover

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Jan Awrejcewicz is the 2011 winner of the Humboldt Prize. This award is granted from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. The award is based on a reasearcher's entire achievements to date, whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights have had significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future. Prof. Awrejcewicz is also the main author of "Nonsmooth Dynamics of Contacting Thermoelastic Bodies", (c) 2009, Springer (AMMA v. 16), 978-0-387-09562-0. He is also the sole editor of "Modeling, Simulation and Control of Nonlinear Engineering Dynamical Systems", (c) 2009 Springer, 978-1-4020-8777-6.

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This volume introduces and reviews novel theoretical approaches to modeling strongly nonlinear behaviour of either individual or interacting structural mechanical units such as beams, plates and shells or composite systems thereof.

The approach draws upon the well-established fields of bifurcation theory and chaos and emphasizes the notion of control and stability of objects and systems the evolution of which is governed by nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations. Computational methods, in particular the Bubnov-Galerkin method, are thus described in detail.