Experiments, modelling and analysis of friction and impact oscillators

During the past decade nonsmooth dynamical systems have become increasingly important in engineering and other applied sciences as nonsmooth effects a re genuinely taken into account and are no longer smoothed out. Due to the lack of smoothness classical mathematical methods are applicable only to a limited degree and require extensions both for analytical and numerical met hods. In the present paper the dynamics of nonsmooth oscillators with impac t and friction are investigated numerically and by experiments.