Nonlinear Structural Dynamics

Computer-aided analysis of non-linear vibration problems using modern numerical methods to solve structural dynamics and approaches for model reduction.

• Modeling, damping modeling and model order reduction
• Time step integration to solve initial value problems
• Shooting method to solve boundary value problems
• Harmonic Balance Method to solve boundary value problems
• Stability analysis of periodic solutions
• Path continuation

• Engineering Dynamics
• Nonlinear Vibrations

• Seydel, Rüdiger: Practical Bifurcation and Stability Analysis, Springer, 2010.
• Marx, Bernd; Vogt, Werner: Dynamische Systeme - Theorie und Numerik, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2011.
• Gasch, Robert; Knothe, Klaus; Liebich, Robert: Strukturdynamik, Springer Vieweg, 2012.