Nonlinear Dynamics and Control

Part A: Vibration absorbers and isolators.- Active nonlinear vibration absorber for harmonically excited beam system.- Comparison of linear and nonlinear damping effects on a ring vibration isolator.- Electroacoustic absorbers based on passive finite-time control of loudspeakers: a numerical investigation.- Seismic response prediction of multiple base-isolated structures for monitoring.- Frequency domain nonlinear modeling and analysis of liquid filled column dampers.- Vibration reduction by using two tuned mass dampers with dry friction damping.- Nonlinear behavior of pendulum tuned mass dampers for vibration control of H-section hangers.- Resonance behavior of the non-ideal system which contains a snap-through truss as absorber.- Experimental dynamic response of a nonlinear wire rope isolator.- Optimization strategies of hysteretic tuned mass dampers for seismic control.- Part B: Control of nonlinear systems.- Sliding mode control of nonlinear systems under non-stationary random vibrations via an equivalent linearization method using block pulse functions.- Experimental dynamic response of a SDOF oscillator constrained by two symmetrically arranged deformable and dissipative bumpers under harmonic base excitation.- Active sling load stabilization.- Multi-objective optimization of active vehicle suspension system control.- Control quality assessment of nonlinear model predictive control using fractal and entropy measures.- Impact of the controller algorithm on the effect of motor vehicle steering during a lane-change manoeuvre.- Fractional order impedance control.- Analysis of quadcopter dynamics during programmed movement under external disturbance.- Non-linear model of quadrotor dynamics during observation and laser target illumination.- Reduced-order modelling friction for line contact in a turbine blade damper system.- Finite-time control of

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