Vol.3, No 11, 2001 pp. 1-3
PREFACE
The Fifth Yugoslav Symposium on Nonlinear Mechanics - NONLINEAR SCI-ENCES
AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM (YUSNM NIŠ '2000) held in Niš,
Yugo-slavia on October 2-5, 2000. at the Faculty of Mechanical Engi-neering,
was dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
and Faculty of Civil Engineering and Archi-tecture, as well as to the 35th
Anniversary of the University of Niš. The Symposium was organized under
the patronage of the Depart-ment of Technical Sciences, Serbian Academy
of Sciences and Arts.
The Proceedings of Abstracts contain 11 abstracts of Invited Plenary
Lectures, 14 Ab-stracts of In-vited Lectures and 81 abstracts of Short
lectrures accepted for presentation at the Fifth Yugoslav Symposium on
Nonlinear Mechanics (YUSNM NIŠ '2000) held in Niš, Yugoslavia October 2-5,
2000.
Invited Plenary Lectures were published as invited papers in the last
issues of Univer-sity scientific journal Facta Universitatis, Series Mechanics,
Automatic Control and Ro-botics, Vol. 2, No. 1 of 3, 2000, Vol. 2, No.
2 of 3, 2000, and Vol. 2, No. 3 of 3, 2000.
Some of the short communications and contributed lectures presented
at YUSNM NIŠ '2000 were accepted for publication and included in this issue
of Series Mechanics, Automatic Control and Ro-botics as papers.
The Fifth YUSNM NIŠ '2000 was a continuation of the following symposiums
and conferences: The First Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics 1983., Arandjelovac,
23-25 November 1983; First Yugoslav Conference on Nonlinear Deterministic
and Stochastic Processes in Dynamical Systems with Applications YCNP Niš
'91, August 27-30, 1991 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Uni-versity
of Niš, as well as of two Minisymposi-usms on Nonlinear mechanics under
the patronage od Yugoslav Society of Mechanics, XXII and XIII Yugoslav
Congress on Theoretical and Applied Me-chanics Niš '95 and Vrnjačka Banja
'97.
Academician Yuri Alekseevich Mitropolski, a prominent scientist,who
is well known all over the world and who gave outstanding contribution
to the nonlinear mechanics, gave a General Lecture entitled "Adiabatic
Processes in Nonlinear Oscillatory Systems". Academician Mitropolski was
a distinguished guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engi-neering University
of Niš at that Simposium and was the only participant from abroad.
The Chairman of the Organizing Committee of this first Symposium was
K. (Steva-nović) Hedrih, and she gave a Contributed Lecture entitled "Assymptotic
Solution of the equations of nonlinear os-cillations of thin elastic shells
with positive Gauss's curvature in two-frequency regime".
Among 32 contributed lectures at the First Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics
Arandjelovac '83 nine were given by the scientist working at the Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering University of Niš.
The First Yugoslav Conference on Nonlinear Deterministic and
Stochastic Processes in Dynamical Systems with Applications YCNP Niš '91,
was held on August 27-30,1991 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
University of Niš. Proceedings - Abstracts of Lecture contain the abstracts
of Invited Lectures written by prominet Scientists: Vladan Đorđević (YU),
William Nash (USA, Editor in Chief, at present Editor Emeritus, of a famous
and well known international Journal Nonlinear Me-chanics, published by
Pergamon Press), who took part in Conference, Kazuyuki Yagasaki (Japan,
joung scien-tist with significant scientific results) and others.
Academician Yu. A, Mitropolski was the invited participant with
Plenary Lecture at the XXII Yugoslav Congres on Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics Niš '95 as well as at the Minisymposium on Nonlinear Mechanics
Niš '95. Academician Felix Chernousko, academician Valentin Rumyantsev
and professor A. M. Martinyuk gave the invited Plaenary Lectures at Yugoslav
Minisymposiums on Nonlinear Mechanics as well.
It is time to remember those who have iniciated the research
on nonlinear mechanics at the Chair for mechanics and at the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering in Niš. Profes-sor Danilo P. Rašković organized,
at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering first posgraduate studies in the
area of Applied Mechanics. He directed his postgraduate students towards
the study of nonlinear mechanics and non-linear oscillations. He sent his
student to specialize in the fields of mathematical physics, nonlinear
differential equations and nonlinear mechanics at the Institute of Mathematics
of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, under the mentorship of distinguished
Yury Alekseevich Mitropolski.
Professor Danilo Rašković, the first Head of the Chair for mechanics
and academician Yuri Mitropolski, with their work have had a permanent
influence on the members of the Chair of Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering in Niš; it is, therefore logical that the Fifth Symposium on
Nonlinear Mechanics will again be held in Niš, in 2000., at the threshold
of the Third Millenium. Academician Mitropolski is a Chairman of the Symposium.
During the last two decades, academician of ANS, Veljko A. Vujičić
gave scientific support in the organizations of the Symposiums on Nonlinear
Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engi-neering in Niš.
For the last five years, academician of RAN Vladimir Matrosov and academician
of RAN V. Rumyancev, have also supported our symposiums with Lectures in
the area of nonlinear mechanics. Professor Guizeppe Rega from Italy, and
academician Anthony Kounadis fom Technical University Athens gave their
contribution too. Professor B. Vujanovic, a corresponding member of SASA,
helped to organize the symposiums.
Nonlinear Mechanics is a subject of great importance in the development
of science and technology. The aim of the Symposium was to provide a forum
to exhibit the prog-ress in this field during the past three years and
a place to futher the interaction of modern mathematics and modern mechanics,
as well as modern engineering sciences. The Sym-posium provided an extraordinary
opportunity for scholars to meet and discuss recent advances in Nonlinear
Mechanics. The participants represented a wide range of expertise, from
pure theoreticians to poeple primarily oriented toward applications. A
significant achievement of the Symposium was the very extensive discussions
taking place over the whole range from highly theoretical questions to
practical engineering applications.
A main conclusion, from a total of 105 abstracts of lectures presented
in this pro-ceedings, that can be drawn is that nonlinear mechanics as
a subject has gained in extent as far as both methodology and applicability
are concerned.
Professor W. Schihlen from University of Stuttgart, president of IUTAM,
wrote: " So what is new in nonlinear dynamics and Mechanics today? First
scope of applications in solid mechanics has broadened to cover material
processing, inelasticityand fracture mechanics. In rigid body dynamics,
more compex systems such as vehicles, robotics and controlled machines
have come into the puview of nonlinear dynamics. On the mathe-matics side
of nonlinear dynamics, it is now recognized that spatio-temporal problems,
hysteretic and time delay problems are the new frontiers in this field.
Also the term "complexity" has been added to the lexicon of chaos theory
to describe the dynamics of many interacting sub systems which can exhibit
self organization and evolution. Complexity analysis has gained a foothold
in biological and some social sciences as well as in fluid and chemical
physics. It remains to be seen what implicit it will have in applied mechanics
and engineering".
A sequence of Symposiums has been supported by scholars, dealing with
Nonlinear sciences, from Ukraina, Russia, Italy, Greece, USA, Poland, Chaina,
Israel, England,.., who did not agree with injustice Yugoslavia was suffering
for the last decade.
Here I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all member of the
scientific Com-mittee and also to the participants for their engagement
in organizing of the Symposium, including the prepara-tion of the manuscripts
for publishing in the University Journal Facta Universitatis, Series Mechanics,
Automatic Control and Robotics, Series Mechani-cal Engineering and Series
Civil Engineering.
I would like to welcome new papers in interdisciplinary areas of nonlinear
sciences hoping that creative efforts and achievements will prevail over
preemption.
Katica (Stevanović) Hedrih
Chairman of Organizing Committee YUSNM NIŠ '2000
Editor-in-Chief of the Series
Mechanics, Automatic Control and Robotics
Scientific Journal Facta Universitatis
