Chaotic phenomena in applied mechanics
The following sections are included:
Nonlinearities in mechanical systems
Pendulum
Rotordynamics
Freud's pendulum
Influence of dry friction and clearances
Properties of a dry friction force
Chaos in systems with dry friction
Basic theory of impact
Coefficient of restitution
Chaos in impact oscillator
Devil's attractor and chaos of a driven impact oscillator
The phenomenon of a grazing impact
Analysis of the simplest impact oscillator