The 3^rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  "NONLINEAR DYNAMICS - 2010"

                       at the NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

                        "KHARKOV POLYTECHNICAL INSTITUTE"

                                     KHARKOV, UKRAINE


                                    FINAL INFORMATION

The 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “NONLINEAR DYNAMICS -2010” took place at the NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY “KHARKOV POLYTECHNICAL INSTITUTE” (Kharkov, Ukraine) on September, 21-24, 2010. The conference was dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the Kharkov National Technical University. A total of 91 scientists from Armenia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, UK, Ukraine, USA and Uzbekistan participated at the conference.

The conference demonstrated the great interest of scientists and engineers from different countries in studying nonlinear vibrations phenomena, and international cooperation in this field. The overall scientific level of conference was very high.

The conference program included 19 presentations at General Session, including 4 invited lectures by Professor Marco Amabili, Professor Christophe Pierre, Professor Yoshisuke Ueda and Professor Marian Wiercigroch, 33 sectional presentations at 6 Sections, 13 posters, and 9 presentations at the Mini-Symposium “CREEP AND PLASTISITY AT CYCLIC LOADING”.

The Conference presentations were devoted to theoretical investigations, computer simulation of vibration phenomena in nonlinear systems and experimental studies. The main subjects of the presentations were the nonlinear normal modes theory; resonances and bifurcations; transient; complex behaviour of oscillators, and other theoretical aspects of the nonlinear dynamics; experiments; numerical simulation; applications of the nonlinear dynamics theory to dynamics of structures, solids, beams, plates, including, for example, sandwich and composite beams and plates; nonlinear vibrations of blades and shells; nonlinear dynamics of plates and shells with complex shape; nonlinear dynamics in turbo-machinery; nonlinear dynamics in rotor systems, drill problems and other engineering applications; nonlinear dynamical effects in physical systems et al.

Mini-symposium "CREEP AND PLASTICITY AT CYCLIC LOADING" was proposed and organized by Professors D.Breslavsky and O.Morachkovsky from NTU KhPI and Professor H.Altenbach from Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. The main idea of this mini-symposium was the organization of discussion between scientists from Material Science and Solid Mechanics from one hand and Nonlinear Dynamics from another one with emphasis on dynamic creep as well as cyclic plasticity and creep, in which significant rheological phenomena are induced and accompanied by cyclic loading. The main topics of mini-symposium were: creep-damage processes in materials and structures, micro- and nano-mechanics and technologies, thermodynamics and physics of the self-organization of complex structures of materials, finite strains under creep and plasticity, direct methods in cyclic plasticity, mechanics of engineering systems. 25 scientists from Germany, Greece, Poland and Ukraine were the participants of the mini-symposium and 9 papers had been presented.

The conference confirmed the importance of international cooperation by re-search teams involving scientists and engineers from different countries. It brought together specialists in theoretical mechanics, applied mathematics, physics, mechanical and electrical engineering.

A book of the conference Proceedings has been published and distributed to the participants. It includes 41 papers on the NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF DISCRETE SYSTEMS, 40 papers on NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS and 12 papers on CREEP AND PLASTICITY AT CYCLIC LOADING.

Participants of the conference confirmed an idea to organize the next conference in the future, perhaps three years later.

Gratitude

Our sincere thanks to

Rector of the National Technical University “Kharkov Polytechnical Institute”, Professor Leonid Tovazhniansky for his invariable support of plans, organization and leading of this conference;

Pro-rector, Professor Valery Kravets for his substantial help in organization and leading of this conference;

Docents Galina Timchenko, Gayane Rudnyeva, Irina Morachkovskaya and Tatiana Shmatko, Assistants Natalia Shiryayeva, Olga Masur, Elena Bezdetko and Andrei Osetrov, Research Fellows Olga Kostromitska and Vladimir Sobol, PhD students Nikolai Perepelkin, Roman Kochurov, Oleksii Borysiuk, Viktoria Tkachenko, Nikolai Budnikov, Ivan Naumov, Yulia Korytko and Yulia Zienkevitch, Engineers Olga Varicheva and Valentin Kuznetsov, Students Ksenia Ryabova, Svetlana Sukach, Alexey Vodka and Dariya Kryuchkova for their great and productive work on organization and preparation of materials of this conference;

Chief of Technical Expedients Department Viktor Volkov, collaborators of this Department Stanislaw Smishlyaev and Gennady Reyaka for their remarkable technical guarantee of the conference work;

Collaborators of the International Сontacts Department of the National Technical University Raisa Kaduk and Irina Kharchenko for their help in organization of this conference;

Chief of the University Library Larisa Semenenko, collaborators of the library, docent Larisa Dzyubak, for a preparation of remarkable exhibition of the publications on Mathematics, Mechanics and Nonlinear Dynamics by the NTU “KhPI” collaborators;

Chief and staff of the printing-house “Petova I.V.” for a publication of the conference Proceedings;

Chief and staff of the café “Sevan” for their nice lunches and dinner;

Other people helped in the Conference organization;

All participants and visitors of the conference.

Organizers