Dynamics of Vibro Impact Systems

The EUROMECH Colloquium "Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems" was held at th th Loughborough University on September 15 _18 , 1998. Main topics: - excitation, synchronisation and stabilisation of vibro-impact processes - dynamics of vibro-impact machines and technological processes - non-linear phenomena due to vibro-impact interaction of solids - synergistic effects of repeated impacts on solids and granular media - control of vibration by impacts - analytical, experimental and numerical methods for the analysis of vibro-impact systems and processes - synthesis and optimisation of vibro-impact systems - measurements of vibro-impact processes The EUROMECH Colloquium "Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems" was held at th th Loughborough University on September 15 _18 , 1998. This was the flrst international meeting on this subject continuing the traditions of the series of Russian meetings held regularly since 1963. Mechanical systems with multiple impact interactions have wide applications in engineering as the most intensive sources of mechanical influence on materials, structures and processes. Vibro-impact systems are used widely in machine dynamics, vibration engineering, and structural mechanics. Analysis of vibro-impact systems involves the investigation of mathematical models with discontinuities and reveals their behaviour as strongly non-linear. Such systems exhibit complex resonances, synchronisation and pulling, bifurcations and chaos, exCitation of space coherent structures, shock waves, and solitons. The aim of the Colloquium was to facilitate the exchange of up-to-date information on the analysis and synthesis of vibro-impact systems as well as on the new developments in excitation, control and applications of vibro-impact processes.

This text presents the proceeding of the Euromech Colloquium on the dynamics of vibro-impact systems. Contributions cover areas such as vocal folds as a vibro-impact system, behaviour of granular materials in the field of vibration, free manifolds of dynamical billiard and vibro-impact processes.