Chaotic clocks: A paradigm for the evolution of noise in machines

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 122, Issue , 2005, Pages 3-16

  Moon, Francis C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Clocks; Machine dynamics; Noise

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; CLOCKS; MACHINE DESIGN; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

MACHINE DYNAMICS; NOISE; STRANGE ATTRACTORS; STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84884661554     PISSN: 09250042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3268-4_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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