The Duffing Equation provides a reference text for postgraduate and students and researchers of mechanical engineering and vibration / nonlinear dynamics as well as a useful tool for practising mechanical engineers.
- Includes a chapter devoted to historical background on Georg Duffing and the equation that was named after him.
- Includes a chapter solely devoted to practical examples of systems whose dynamic behaviour is described by the Duffing equation.
- Contains a comprehensive treatment of the various forms of the Duffing equation.
- Uses experimental, analytical and numerical methods as well as concepts of nonlinear dynamics to treat the physical systems in a unified way.