Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications

Liming Dai, PhD, is Professor and Program Chair of Industrial Systems Engineering at the University of Regina, Canada. Reza N. Jazar, PhD, is Professor and Associate Dean of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at the School of Engineering in RMIT University, Australia.

• Section 1: Energy Applications.- Nonlinear Behaviour Diagnosis for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades Subjected to Inconstant Wind Excitations.- Concentrated solar power plants capacity factors: A review.- Section 2: Vibrations and Automotive Applications.- Vibration Analysis of Oscillators with Generalized Inertial and Geometrical Nonlinearities.- Quarter Car Suspension Model with Provision for Loss of Contact with The Road.- Friction Coefficient of Pneumatic Tires and Bitumen Roads.- Solutions for Path Planning using Spline Parameterization.- Section 3: Modern Engineering Applications.- Diagnosis of nonlinear stochastic dynamics of active slider in nanometer spacing.- Formation Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots using an Acoustic Sensor.- Nonlinear Size-dependent Instability of Hybrid FGM Nanoshells.- Section 4: Analytical-Numerical Analysis Applications.- An exact solution technique for impact oscillators.- A semi-analytical solution for bending of nonlinear magnetostrictive beams.- Limted Data Modelling Approaches for Engineering Applications.- Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of The Elastic-Plastic Behavior of Thick-walled Cylinders.- A Complex Variable Method to Predict an Aerodynamics of Arbitrary Shape Ballistic Projectiles.- Extension of substructuring technique in the nonlinear domain.- Index.