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This volume is text book in the field of Oscilations and Waves, and one of the early text books on the nonlinear aspect of the unified theory of oscillations and waves.

Although it has been considered difficult to make further contributions in the field of mechanics, the spectacular evolution of technology and numerical calculation techniques has made these opinions shift, and increasingly sophisticated models have been developed, which should predict, as accurately as possible, the phenomena that take place in dynamic systems. Therefore, researchers have come to study mechanical systems with complicated behavior using experiments and computer models [ 1 – 3 ]. The key requirement is that the system is nonlinear in its form. The impetus in mechanics and dynamical systems has come from many sources: computer simulation, experimental science, mathematics, and modeling [ 4 – 7 ]. There is a wide range of influences. Computer experiments change the way in which we analyze these systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, modeling mechanical systems, new methods in dynamic systems, the behavior simulation of a mechanical system, nonlinear systems, multibody systems with elastic elements, multi- degrees of freedom, mechanical systems, experimental modal analysis, and mechanics of materials.