Dynamics with Friction: Modeling, Analysis and Experiment (Q4223565)

[For part I, see the authors, Dynamics with friction: Modeling, analysis and experiment. Part 1. Series on Stability, Vibration and Control Systems, Series B. 7. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers. 264 p. (1996; Zbl 0935.74006).] This is a collection of contributions from research centres that represents the state-of-the-art in the study of friction oscillators. The volume is designed to help synthesize the current knowledge concerning the role of friction in mechanical and structural systems. The topics covered include friction modelling, dry friction in the presence of contact vibrations, disc vibrations and the instabilities caused by the action of transverse mass-springs-damper systems, dynamics of flexible links, dynamics of an experimental beam excited by dry friction, transient wave propagation in viscoelastic media, nonlinear dynamic buckling of periodically reinforced structures, dynamic stability and nonlinear parametric vibrations of rectangular plates, dry friction damped systems with motion-dependent normal forces, among other topics. This book gives a comprehensive picture of dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems. It will be of interest to engineers, rheologists, material scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists and historians of science and technology. Contents: Interaction of vibration and friction on dry sliding contacts (\textit{D. Hess}); Vibration and friction-introduced instability in discs (\textit{J. Mottershead}); Dynamics of flexible links in kinematic chains (\textit{D. Marghitu} and \textit{A. Guran}); Solitons, chaos and modal interaction in periodic structures (\textit{M. Davies} and \textit{F. Moon}); Analysis and modelling of an experimental frictionally exited beam (\textit{R. Kappagantu} and \textit{B. Feeny}); Transient waves in linear viscoelastic media (\textit{F. Mainardi}); Dynamic stability and nonlinear parametric vibrations of rectangular plates (\textit{G. Ostiguy}); Frictional modelling and dynamic computation (\textit{J. Meijaard}); Damping through use of passive and semi-active dry friction forces (\textit{A. Ferri}).