Chaos in Structural MechanicsPaperback, 22 October 2010

Theory of Non-homogeneous Shells.- Static Instability of Rectangular Plates.- Vibrations of Rectangular Shells.- Dynamic Loss of Stability of Rectangular Shells.- Stability of a Closed Cylindrical Shell Subjected to an Axially Non-symmetrical Load.- Composite Shells.- Interaction of Elastic Shells and a Moving Body.- Chaotic Vibrations of Sectoria Shells.- Scenarios of Transition from Harmonic to Chaotic Motion.- Dynamics of Closed Flexible Cylindrical Shells.- Controlling Time-Spatial Chaos of Cylindrical Shells.- Chaotic Vibrations of Flexible Rectangular Shells.- Determination of Three-layered Non-linear Uncoupled Beam Dynamics with Constraints.- Bifurcation and Chaos of Dissipative Non-linear Mechanical Systems of Multi-layer Sandwich Beams.- Nonlinear Vibrations of the Euler-Bernoulli Beam Subjected to Transversal Load and Impact Actions.