With a worldwide circulation of over 15,000, Automotive Testing Technology International has become the leading and most respected magazine covering breaking stories in the fields of vehicle reliability, durability, safety, quality, NVH and dynamics testing and evaluation.

With a worldwide circulation of over 15,000, Automotive Testing Technology International has become the leading and most respected magazine covering breaking stories in the fields of vehicle reliability, durability, safety, quality, NVH and dynamics testing and evaluation.

With a worldwide circulation of over 15,000, Automotive Testing Technology International has become the leading and most respected magazine covering breaking stories in the fields of vehicle reliability, durability, safety, quality, NVH, and dynamics testing and evaluation.

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The aim of this International Symposium on Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent developments in the theory and industrial applications of vibro-impact ocean systems. A special effort has been made to invite active researchers from engineering, science, and applied mathematics communities.

It has been discovered over the past few decades that even motions in simple systems can have complex and surprising properties. This volume provides a clear introduction to these chaotic phenomena, based on geometrical interpretations and simple arguments, without the need for prior in-depth scientific and mathematical knowledge. Richly illustrated throughout, its examples are taken from classical mechanics whose elementary laws are familiar to the reader. In order to emphasize the general features of chaos, the most important relations are also given in simple mathematical forms, independent of any mechanical interpretation.

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