Vibration Protection Systems

Preface; Acknowledgements; Some end-to-end acronyms and nomenclatures; 1. Vibrations destroying inside and outside the man-machine systems; 2. Vibration protection systems with negative and quasi-zero stiffness: developmental trends and theory baseline; 3. Modeling of elastic nonlinear buckling in large and dimensioning the mechanisms with negative stiffness; 4. The type and number synthesis of the function-generating mechanisms; 5. Dynamics of systems with sign-changing stiffness. Chaotic vibration motion and stability conditions; 6. Dynamics of systems with sign-changing stiffness. Damping control; 7. Dynamics of systems with sign-changing stiffness. Features of active motion control; 8. Methods of experimental study of vibration protection systems with negative and quasi-zero stiffness; 9. In harmony with conventional vibration protection systems; 10. Development and use of vibration protection systems with negative and quasi-zero stiffness: practice and prospects; Index.