The European Mechanics Council has organized more than 300 Euromech Colloquia on specialized topics in mechanics. It has established also the Nonlinear Oscillations Conference Committee (ENOCC) to organize a new initiative in the form of a series of Euromech Conferences on Nonlinear Oscillations. The conferences are intended to bring together scientists working in different fields of dynamics, to exchange ideas and discuss current research trends and developments with emphasis on the interdisciplinary character of nonlinear oscillations. In this respect the 3rd ENOC continues the tradition of the twelve International Conferences on Nonlinear Oscillations (ICNO's) and the two previous ENOCs held in Hamburg 1993, and Prague 1996.

The topics of qualitative analysis of dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, and global analysis have gained much interest among mathematicians and are very important for the understanding of the phenomena observed in nonlinear systems. But just applications show that many basic problems still have to be solved. The aim of the 3rd ENOC is to discuss the new mathematical developments in the theory of nonlinear oscillations and their application in technology and scientific disciplines like mechanics, physics, chemistry, electrodynamics, and biology. The current contributions from the various fields will underline the interdisciplinary, synergetic character of nonlinear dynamics.

The 3rd ENOC proceedings are available in postscript and pdf formats. The postscript files are compressed using gzip. You can download the individual postscript papers and expand them by using the command gunzip 'filename'. In case of problems with reading the proceedings, please contact Mads Peter Sørensen on e-mail address mps@imm.dtu.dk.

The scientific committee had the following members: S.R. Bishop, F. Chernousko, J. Engelbrecht, E. Kreuzer, F. Peterka, F. Pfeiffer, G. Rega, J.P. Pascal, C. Sobczyk and H. Troger.

The local scientific committee consisted of H. True (chairman), M. Brøns, S.B. Jørgensen, M.P. Sørensen and J.J. Thomsen.

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from

• Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik's Foundation
• The Danish Research Agency
• Thomas B. Thrige's Foundation
• The City of Copenhagen
• The Danish Mathematical Society
• The Technical University of Denmark
• MIDIT, The Centre for Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics and Irreversible Thermodynamics
• SAS, Scandinavian Airlines System

Last but not least we thank HRH Princess Alexandra of Denmark for being the protector of this conference.
 

Hans True and Mads Peter Sørensen
Editors.
February 1, 2000.

3rd ENOC Proceedings, Index

 
 

Two-dimensional solitary waves in media with quadratic and cubic nonlinearity Alexander Boichuk Nonlinear forced response of nonuniform beam with rectangular cross-section and parabolic thickness variation Dumitru I. Caruntu Bushes of normal modes for nonlinear mechanical systems with discrete symmetry G.M. Chechin, V.P. Sakhnenko, M.Yu. Zekhtser, H.T. Stokes, S. Carter, and D.M. Hatch Nonlinear structural vibrations control Florian Dignath and Werner Schiehlen Nonlinear dynamics in crane ship motion Katrin Ellermann and Edwin Kreuzer Generalized normal solution of degenerated system of equations/inequalities V.K. Gorbunov Rheonomic coordinate method applied to nonlinear vibration systems with hereditary elements Katica Stevanovic Hedrih Vectorial method, mass moments vectors and rotator vectors in nonlinear heavy gyrorotor dynamics Katica Stevanovic Hedrih Nonlinear oscillations in a time-optimal feedback system Wladyslaw Hejmo Backlash in balancing systems using approximate spring characteristics L.E. Kollar, G. Stepan, and S.J. Hogan Vibration impact processes in systems with viscous-elastic limiters Grigory Panovko and Leonid Lukin Bifurcation of coisotropic invariant tori of Hamiltonian system under perturbations of symplectic structure Ihor Parasyuk Dynamical joints influence of sandwich plates Francesco Petrone, Francesca Garescì, Michele Lacagnina and Rosario Sinatra The reduction method in the theory of Lie-algebraically integrable oscillatory Hamiltonian systems Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky Interaction of two strong nonlinearities Ladislav Pust and Ondrej Szöllös On the boundary problem for a linear impulse system of the second order and the Green function of this linear impulse system Tatyana Shovkoplyas On stability of viscoelastic elements of thin-shelled constructions under aerohydrodynamic action Petr A. Velmisov and Andrey V. Ankilov