Oscillations in Systems with Dry Friction -- Systems with Almost Elastic Collisions -- Systems with Strong Dissipation Due to High Damping or Inelastic Collisions -- Short Notes on the Significantly Nonlinear Resonance -- High Frequency Excitation: Basic Ideas and Elementary Effects -- Systems with High-Frequency Excitation: Advanced Analysis and Generalizations.

Nonlinear Oscillations in Mechanical Engineering explores the effects of nonlinearities encountered in applications in that field. Since the nonlinearities are caused, first of all, by contacts between different mechanical parts, the main part of this book is devoted to oscillations in mechanical systems with discontinuities caused by dry friction and collisions. Another important source of nonlinearity which is covered is that caused by rotating unbalanced parts common in various machines as well as variable inertias occurring in all kinds of crank mechanisms. This book is written for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, but it may be also helpful and interesting for both theoreticians and practitioners working in the area of mechanical engineering at universities, in research labs or institutes and especially in the R&D departments within industrial firms.