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New type of static friction model containing hysteresis is presented.

A talk on the interaction of silicon design and progress in communications technologies, particularly mobile/wireless devices. Prof Boeck is a member of staff at Berlin University. Georg will be accompanied by Dr Frank Henkel of IMSL. Frank has been involved in a large number of EC funded...

Single–molecule tests on DNA in a magnetic tweezer experiment allow the molecule to be stretched and twisted. Under increasing twist the DNA buckles locally and forms a ply (plectoneme) which grows at right–angles to the loading axis. Interpreting this in terms of elastic–rod theory allows the estimation of important parameters...

Nonlinear normal vibration modes of a semi-infinite slender beam on elastic foundation with unilateral contact are addressed using the method of multiple scales.

A good correlation between the experiments and theory allowed to unfold the complex forced dynamics of a sagged cable triggered by a divergence-Hopf codimension two bifurcation.

The Molecular Dynamics (MD) is a vast research field attempting to model natural phenomena on a wide span of length&time scales ranging from atomistic (angstrom: 10-10m) to tissue/material fragment(micrometer:10-6m) length scales as well as from picoseconds (QM/MM simulations) to microseconds (protein folding, membrane protein function) time scales.

Chaotic dynamical systems with two or more attractors lying on invariant subspaces may, provided certain mathematical conditions are fulfilled, exhibit intermingled basins of attraction: each basin is riddled with holes belonging to basins of the other attractors. In order to investigate the occurrence of such phenomenon in dynamical systems of...