Elastic and Thermoelastic Problems in Nonlinear Dynamics of Structural Members: Applications of the Bubnov-Galerkin and Finite Difference Methods

Adding seven new chapters integrating modern approaches to dynamical systems theory, this revised second edition describes numerical approaches to the nonlinear theory of beams, plates and shells, with an emphasis to the elastic and thermoelastic features. The added chapters discuss in particular how to understand, model, and obtain reliable results while detecting and analysing chaotic dynamics exhibited by thin structural members. The authors attempt to address the large impact of new dir...