Walter Lacarbonara (editor) - New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics: Proceedings of the First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2019), Volume III

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This volume is part of three volumes collecting theProceedings of the First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2019)held in Rome, February 1720, 2019. NODYCON was launched to foster the tradition of the conference series originally established by Prof. Ali H. Nayfeh in 1986 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, USA, as the Nonlinear Vibrations, Stability, and Dynamics of Structures Conference. With the passing in 2017 of Prof. Nayfeh, who was also the founder of the Springer journalNonlinear Dynamicsin 1990, NODYCON 2019 was organized as a collective tribute of the community to Prof. Nayfeh for being one of the most influential leaders of nonlinear dynamics. NODYCON 2019 was also established to look to and dream about the future. The call for papers attracted contributions dealing with established nonlinear dynamics research topics as well as with the latest trends and developments. At the same time, to reflect the rich spectrum of topics covered by the journalNonlinear Dynamics, the call included diverse and multidisciplinary topics, to mention a few, multi-scale dynamics, experimental dynamics, dynamics of structures/industrial machines/equipment/facilities, dynamics of adaptive, multifunctional, metamaterial structures, dynamics of composite/nanocomposite structures, reduced-order modeling, nonsmooth dynamics, fractional-order system dynamics, nonlinear interactions and parametric vibrations, computational techniques, nonlinear system identification, dynamics of NEMS/MEMS/nanomaterials, multibody dynamics, fluid/structure interaction, influence of nonlinearities on vibration control systems, humanmachine interaction, nonlinear wave propagation in discrete and continuous media, chaotic map-based cryptography, ecosystem dynamics, social media dynamics, complexity in engineering, and network dynamics.

The authors of a selection of approximately 60 papers were invited to publish in the Special Issue ofNonlinear Dynamicsentitled NODYCON 2019 First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference. Over 200 full papers were submitted to theProceedings of the First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference(NODYCON 2019) and only 121 of them were accepted. These papers have been collected into three volumes, which are listed below together with a sub-topical organization.

I wish to acknowledge the work of the Co-Editors of the NODYCON 2019 Proceedings: Prof. Balakumar Balachandran (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Prof. Jun Ma (Lanzhou University of Technology, China), Prof. J. A. Tenreiro Machado (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal), Prof. Gabor Stepan (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary).

The success of NODYCON 2019 relied primarily on the efforts, talent, energy, and enthusiasm of researchers in the field of nonlinear dynamics who wrote and submitted these papers. Special praise is also deserved for the reviewers who invested significant time in reading, examining, and assessing multiple papers, thus ensuring a high standard of quality for this conference proceedings.