Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications: Energy, Vibrations, and Modern Applications

Section 1: Energy ApplicationsChapter 1Nonlinear Behaviour Diagnosis for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades Subjected to Inconstant Wind Excitations
Chapter 2Concentrated solar power plants capacity factors: A review
Section 2: Vibrations and Automotive ApplicationsChapter 3 Vibration Analysis of Oscillators with Generalized Inertial and Geometrical Nonlinearities
Chapter 4 Quarter Car Suspension Model with Provision for Loss of Contact with The Road
Chapter 5 Friction Coefficient of Pneumatic Tires and Bitumen Roads
Chapter 6Solutions for Path Planning using Spline Parameterization
Section 3: Modern Engineering ApplicationsChapter 7Diagnosis of nonlinear stochastic dynamics of active slider in nanometer spacing
Chapter 8 Formation Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots using an Acoustic Sensor
Chapter 9 Nonlinear Size-dependent Instability of Hybrid FGM Nanoshells
Section 4: Analytical-Numerical Analysis ApplicationsChapter 10 An exact solution technique for impact oscillators
Chapter 11A semi-analytical solution for bending of nonlinear magnetostrictive beams
Chapter 12 Limted Data Modelling Approaches for Engineering Applications
Chapter 13 Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of The Elastic-Plastic Behavior of Thick-walled Cylinders
Chapter 14A Complex Variable Method to Predict an Aerodynamics of Arbitrary Shape Ballistic Projectiles
Chapter 15 Extension of substructuring technique in the nonlinear domain