New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics

Part A:Smart materials, metamaterials, composite and nanocomposite materials and structures.- Tunable Bleustein-Gulyaev permittivity sensors.- Nonlinear metamaterials with multiple local mechanical resonators: analytical and numerical analyses.- Nonlinear vibration analysis of metamaterial honeycomb sandwich structures with negative Poisson's ratio.- Wave propagation phenomena in nonlinear elastic metamaterials.- Numerical simulations in nonlinear elastic metamaterials with nonlocal interaction.- Nonlinear dynamic response of nanocomposite cantilever beams.- A numerical strategy for multi-stable nanocomposite shells.- Parametric vibrations of functionally graded sandwich plates with complex form.- Nonlinear oscillation of a FG cylindrical shell on a discontinuous elastic foundation.- Nonlinear fracture dynamic analysis of double cantilever beam sandwich specimens.- Nonlinear vibration analysis of a sandwich beam and assessment of the dynamic behavior.- Dynamic buckling of FGM cylindrical shells under torsional impact loads.- Part B: MEMS/NEMS and energy harvesters.- Nonlinear dynamic modeling for high temperature superconductivity in nanocluster topological structures on solid surface.- Nonlinear dynamic processes in laser-induced transitions to low dimensional carbon nanostructures in bulk graphite unit.- Electro-mechanical characterization of an electrospun piezoelectric microfiber.- On modeling of Springless Electromagnetic Energy Harvesters.- Part C: Nonlinear phenomena in bio- and eco-systems dynamics.- Critical behaviors of regular pattern selection in neuronal networks with chemical synapses.- Dynamics of a homeostatically regulated neural system with delayed connectivity.- Autapse-induced complicated oscillations of a ring FHN neuronal network with multiple delayed couplings.- A time-delay nonlinear model of dopamine-modulated prefrontal-limbic interactions in schizophrenia.- Wilson-Cowan neuronal interaction models with distributed delays.-

Walter Lacarbonara earned his MS in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech and his PhD in Structural Dynamics from Sapienza University of Rome where he is currently a Professor of Structural Mechanics. He works on projects supported by AFOSR, NSF, MIUR, EU. He served as co-Chair of the 2015 ASME IDETC (Boston), Chair of NODYCON 2019 (Rome, Italy), Chair of the ASME Technical Committee Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (2017-2019). He is Editor in Chief of Nonlinear Dynamics (Springer Nature). He has published a Springer book entitled "Nonlinear Structural Mechanics. Theory, Modeling, Dynamic Phenomena" (2013), 250 publications, and 3 international patents. His research interests include nonlinear structural dynamics; exact modeling of cables/beams/plates/shells; asymptotics; experimental nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear control of vibrations; carbon nanotube nanocomposites.





Gabor Stepan received his degrees at Budapest University ofTechnology and Economics and is a professor of Applied Mechanics there. He is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Europe. He is ERC Advanced Grant holder and the recipient of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award of ASME. He was the head of the Department of Applied Mechanics at BME, served as the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Congress Committee of IUTAM, and serves as a member in Euromech Council. Research interests include nonlinear vibrations and time-delay systems with applications in mechanical engineering: dynamics of elastic wheels, vibrations of robots, force control, human and robotic balancing, rehabilitation robotics, machine tool vibrations, traffic dynamics, hardware-in-the-loop experiments.


 

Dr. Balachandran received his Ph.D. (Engineering Mechanics) from Virginia Tech.  Currently, he is a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering at