Structural Nonlinear Dynamics and Diagnosis: Selected papers from CSNDD 2012 and CSNDD 2014

Recent Advances of Structural Life Assessment and Related Problems.- Electromagnetic Impact Vibration Energy Harvesters.- Numerical and Experimental Assessment of the Modal Curvature Method for Damage Detection in Plate Structures.- Proposal of a Nonlinear Piezoelectric Coupling Term to Energy Harvesting Interactions.- Effect of Reinforced Concrete Deterioration and Damage on the Seismic Performance of Structures.- Recurrence and Joint Recurrence Analysis of Multiple Attractors Energy Harvesting System.- Quasiperiodic Galloping of a Wind-Excited Tower under External Forcing and Parametric Damping.- On Optimal Control of a Nonlinear Robotic Mechanism Using the Saturation Phenomenon.- Quasi-Coordinates Based Dynamics Control Design for Constrained Systems.- Quasi-Periodically Actuated Capacitive Micro electromechanical systems.