Advanced Nonlinear Strategies for Vibration Mitigation and System Identification
Invited Lecturers
- L.A. Bergman (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
- 1 lecture on: Overview of mitigation strategies for systems subjected to loads causing vibration and shock. 3 lectures on: Nonlinear system identification based on Wavelet transforms and Empirical Mode Decomposition, and applications to identification of nonlinear modal interactions in coupled oscillators. 2 lectures on: Application of TET designs to seismic mitigation of structures.
- Oleg Gendelman (Technion - ITT, Haifa, Israel)
- 2 lectures on: Analysis of strongly nonlinear systems subjected to transient loads, conditions for TET and interpretation of complex, multi-frequency transitions in the damped structural responses in terms of the underlying undamped dynamics. 2 lectures on: Damped NNM invariant manifolds and detailed description of TET by multiple-scales analysis. 2 lectures on: TET in harmonically forced coupled oscillators, steady state and strongly modulated responses, and applications to vibration isolation.
- Gaetan Kerschen (Université de Liege, Liege, Belgium)
- 2 lectures on: An overview and assessment of nonlinear system identification techniques, and a discussion of their use for modeling nonlinear engineering structures. 2 lectures on: The concept of nonlinear normal modes and their application to system identification. 2 lectures on: Use of advanced computational methods (Wavelet analysis, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Complexification-Averaging) for signal analysis, nonparametric identification and modeling of the dynamics of complex nonlinear systems.
- Leonid Manevitch (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
- 1 lecture on: A brief synopsis of existing methods for the steady-state analysis of weakly nonlinear systems including their strengths and limitations. 5 lectures on: Analysis of strongly nonlinear systems subjected to transient loads; study of TET using analytical techniques suitable for strongly nonlinear systems; study of systems with nonsmooth (vibro-impact and clearance) nonlinearities.
- D. Michael McFarland (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
- 2 lectures on: Passive TET for vibration and shock mitigation; discussion of alternative types of NESs acting as broadband boundary controllers. 4 lectures on: Strategies for practical implementation of passive TET in discrete and distributed systems; design issues for constructing and integrating into structures of practical NESs.
- Alexander Vakakis (Nat. Technic. Univ. of Athens, Zografos, Athens, Greece)
- 4 lectures on: Passive vibration and shock mitigation by means of TET theoretical basis, the concept of NES, alternative NES designs and formulation of a new paradigm for vibration and shock mitigation. 2 lectures on: Application of TET designs to aeroelastic instability suppression and shock isolation of elastic systems.