Research Workshop on Bifurcations in Oscillators with Elastic and Impact Constraints

Month: November 2009

Date: November 4--6

Name: Research Workshop on Bifurcations in Oscillators with Elastic and Impact Constraints

Location: Imperial College, London, England.

Description

The workshop aims at creating a fruitfuil atmosphere for strengthening the link between the theory of simple oscillators with piecewise smooth stiffness (including impact oscillators) and mechanical applications (in particular, atomic force microscopy).

Central schemes

Discontinuity map approach, Melnikov subharmonic approach, Approximation of impact oscillators by piecewise smooth ones: mathematical and mechanical challenges, Oscillators with piecewise smooth stiffness and collisions: to which extend are they nonsmooth?, Applications in mechanics.

Information

http://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/DynamIC/Impact09.