Existence and stability of localized oscillations in 1-dimensional lattices with soft-spring and hard-spring potentials

Journal of Vibration and Acoustics

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 520-527

  Panagopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Bountis, Tassos ^b   Skokos, Charalampos ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RESONANCE;

DISCRETE BREATHERS; FLOQUET THEORY; LOCALIZED OSCILLATIONS; SMALLER ALIGNMENT INDEX METHOD;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS;

EID: 13244295623     PISSN: 10489002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1804997     Document Type: Article

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