Nonlinear hunting speeds of railway vehicles running on a tangent track are analytically obtained using Hopf bifurcation theory in this paper. The railway vehicle model consists of nonlinear primary yaw dampers, nonlinear flange contact stiffness as well as the clearance between the wheel flange and rail tread. Linear and nonlinear critical speeds are obtained using Bogoliubov method. A compreh...

capital asset pricing model (capm) has been among the common models to estimate expected returns rate. since the linearity assumption is considered in the standard version of the capital asset pricing model, estimating beta in nonlinear setting will be inconsistent and bias-oriented. therefore, this study tries to evaluate predictive power of nonlinear capital asset pricing model as well as sta...

the purpose of this paper is to analyze in detail a special nonlinear partial differentialequation (npde) of the second order which is important in physical, chemical and technicalapplications. the present npde describes nonlinear diffusion and is of interest in several partsof physics, chemistry and engineering problems alike. since nature is not linear intrinsicallythe nonlinear case is there...

this paper gives an ecient numerical method for solving the nonlinear systemof volterra-fredholm integral equations. a legendre-spectral method based onthe legendre integration gauss points and lagrange interpolation is proposedto convert the nonlinear integral equations to a nonlinear system of equationswhere the solution leads to the values of unknown functions at collocationpoints.

Duffing harmonic oscillator is a common model for nonlinear phenomena in science and engineering. This paper presents He´s Energy Balance Method (EBM) for solving nonlinear differential equations. Two strong nonlinear cases have been studied analytically. Analytical results of the EBM are compared with the solutions obtained by using He´s Frequency Amplitude Formulation (FAF) and numerical solu...

in this study, he’s variational approach (va) is used to solve the non-naturalvibrations and oscillations. the method works very well for the whole range of initial amplitudesand does not demand small perturbation. it is also sufficiently accurate to both linear and nonlinearphysics and engineering problems. we consider some examples to illustrate the effectiveness andconvenience of the method....

reliable stress-strain behavior of concrete is necessary particularly when a member is subjected to combine bending and axial load and confinement effects should be accounted for. a unified theory for confinement of circular hollow sections is proposed herein, that can be extended to the case of solid and noncircular sections. the main aim of the model is to trace step-by-step the evolution of ...

introduction: the main objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of preceding pictorial stimulus on the emotional autonomic responses of the subsequent one. methods: to this effect, physiological signals, including electrocardiogram (ecg), pulse rate (pr), and galvanic skin response (gsr) were collected. as these signals have random and chaotic nature, nonlinear dynamics of t...