Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration Control in Engineering Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Nonlinear dynamics and vibration control play a crucial role in diverse engineering disciplines, ensuring the reliability, functionality, and comfort of various engineering applications. Over the past decades, a variety of techniques relevant to vibration control, wave manipulation, and energy harvesting have been developed for tackling the engineering vibration problems. However, the applications in linear vibration theory may lead to bias or even infeasibility due to the nonlinearity features, such as large deformation, contact, and friction in practices. This forms one of the greatest challenges to obtain a general representation of vibration characteristics, and remains open to be investigated until now. In such a situation, advanced computational methods for the modeling of nonlinear dynamic systems need to be developed, and the nonlinear features, such as harmonic resonance, bifurcation, and chaos, are worth to be explored. The efficient modeling techniques and the discovered novel dynamic features then allow for the breakthrough of vibration control methods as well as useful devices, which may have potential value to improve the performance, comfort, and life span of engineering systems and structures. The scope of this Special Issue encompasses a wide range of engineering applications, including structural engineering, mechanical systems, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and ocean engineering. Contributions are sought in the areas of theoretical developments, numerical simulations, experimental studies, and practical applications related to nonlinear dynamics and vibration control.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Nonlinear vibration theory, dynamic modeling, and analysis methods;
• Analytical and semi-analytical methods for nonlinear vibrations;
• Nonlinear dynamics for design, harnessing from nonlinearities;
• Multi-scale/multi-physics dynamics;
• Computational techniques, perturbation methods, local/global methods, efficient algorithms, parallel processing, computational intelligence;
• Vibration and control in engineering structures and machinery;
• Experimental dynamics;
• Random vibrations (earthquake engineering, wind engineering, etc.);
• Dynamic stability;
• Bifurcations and chaos;
• Innovative control of structures and machinery, including fuzzy, probabilistic, and neural network control;
• Aeroelasticity and fluid–structure interactions;
• Waves in solids and fluids;
• Nonlinear system identification, parametric, data-driven, neural networks, artificial intelligence (AI);
• Active/adaptive control and smart structures;
• Vibration utilization (vibration energy collection, transducers, rehabilitation medicine, etc.);
• Fault diagnosis and health monitoring;
• Dynamic modeling and control for spacecraft;
• Dynamics of continuous systems such as the hoister system, aerial cable tramways, overhead transmission line, elevators, etc.;
• Multibody system dynamics and vibration control.

Original work highlighting the latest research and technical development is encouraged, but review papers and comparative studies are also welcome.

Dr. Hao Zhu
Dr. Wei Fan
Dr. Songhan Zhang
Guest Editors

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• nonlinear dynamics
• engineering vibration problem
• dynamic stability
• analysis method
• computational method
• experimental method
• vibration control
• system identification
• optimal design