Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- Linear Oscillator and a Non-Ideal Energy Source.- Nonlinear One-Degree-of-Freedom Oscillator Interacting with a Non-Ideal Energy Source.- Non-Ideal Vibrating Systems with Dampers.- Two-Degree-of-Freedom Oscillator Interacting with a Non-Ideal Energy Source.- Vibration of a Non-Ideal Rotor System.- Portal Frame Supporting Non-Ideal Energy Sources.- Application of Non-Ideal Systems in Energy Harvesting.

About the Author

Livija Cveticanin is Professor of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She got PhD degree at the University of Novi Sad in 1981. In 2015 she finished her second dissertation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

She is member of the International Federation of Theory of Mechanisms and Machines IFToMM. She was the President of the Society of Mechanics of Vojvodina, President of the Society for Vibration Control and Protection, President of the Yugoslav Society of Mechanics.

She published three English language monographs, as well as several textbooks in Serbian.

She is member of the Editorial Board of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Facta Universitatis, Ser. Mechanics, Automatic Control and Robotics, associated editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory and Journal of Applied Mathematics.