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70306 Advanced Vibration and Stability Analysis Danish title: Videregående svingnings- og stabilitetslære Language: English Credit points: 5 Type:  Ph.D.-level, Open University Language: English Previous course: C7006 No credit points with: C7006 Prerequisite: 70205 Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester Scope and form: 2 lecture modules per week, exercises and discussion of problems. Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13-scale) Contact person:  Jon Juel Thomsen, Building 404, Tel. +45 4525 4294, email jjt@mek.dtu.dk, http://www.fam.dtu.dk/html/jjt.html Department: Department of Solid Mechanics Aim: To improve the understanding of the principal problems of vibrations and stability. To enable the student to deal with complex problems of mechanical vibrations. To enable the student to recognize and analyse essential phenomena associated with nonlinear vibration and stability. Contents: The eigenvalue problems of mechanics, problems of vibration and stability, mechanical nonlinearities, forced nonlinear vibrations, perturbation methods, local geometrical theory, stability analysis, bifurcation theory, model reduction, nonlinear parametric systems, internal resonance and modal interaction, chaotic vibrations in mechanical systems, diagnostical methods, predictive methods, quantitative description of chaos, spacial chaos.