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Arne Nordmark

PhD, Docent
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Education

PhD in mechanics 1992. Docent in mechanics 1999.

Professional history

At KTH since 1984.

Research and Professional Activities

Research in the dynamics of mechanical systems with discontinuous or impulsive forces

Publications

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Year	Title
2013	Magnetic energy of surface currents on a torus Progress In Electromagnetics Research B 46 357 - 378
2012	Instability of thin hyper-elastic space membranes under pressure loads Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg
2011	Activation dynamics in the optimization of targeted movements Computers & Structures 89 968-976
2011	Magnetic field and current are zero inside ideal conductors Progress In Electromagnetics Research B 27 187-212
2011	Friction-induced reverse chatter in rigid-body mechanisms with impacts IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 76(1) 85--119
2011	Friction-induced reverse chatter in rigid-body mechanisms with impacts Proceedings of the 7th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC 2011)
2010	Temporal finite element formulation of optimal control in mechanisms Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 199 1783-1792
2010	Free-time optimization of targeted movements based on temporal FE approximation Proc. CST2010, Valencia
2010	Static deformation of a heavy spring due to gravity and to centrifugal force European journal of physics 31 603-609
2010	The comfortable roller coaster — on the shape of tracks with a constant normal force European journal of physics 31 1307 - 1317
2009	Simulation and stability analysis of impacting systems with complete chattering Nonlinear Dynamics 58 85--106
2009	Discontinuity-induced bifurcations in systems with impacts and friction: Discontinuities in the impact law International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 44 1011-1023
2008	Discontinuity-induced bifurcations of equilibria in piecewise-smooth and impacting dynamical systems Physica D 237 119--136
2008	Bifurcations in Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems SIAM Review 50(4) 629-701
2007	The skipping rope curve European journal of physics 28 241-247
2006	A codimension-two scenario of sliding solutions in grazing-sliding bifurcations Nonlinearity 19(1) 1-26
2006	Two-parameter discontinuity-induced bifurcations of limit cycles: classification and open problems International Journal of bifurcation and chaos . 16(3) 601-629
2004	Hamiltonian of a homogeneous two-component plasma Phys. Rev. E. 69 036404, 1-9
2003	Sliding bifurcations: a novel mechanism for the sudden onset of chaos in dry friction oscillators International Journal of bifurcation and chaos . 13(10) 2935-2948
2002	Breaking Symmetries and Constraints: Transitions from 2D to 3D in Passive Walkers Multibody System Dynamics
2002	Low-velocity Impacts of Quasi-periodic Oscillations Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 14 2
2002	Bifurcation of dynamical Systems with sliding: derivations of normal-form mappings Physica D 170 175-205
2002	Discontinuity mappings for vector fields with higher order continuity Dynamical Systems 17 359--376
2001	On a Normal-Form Analysis for a Class of Passive Bipedal Walkers Int J. of bifurcation and Chaos 11(9) 2411-2425
2001	Grazing Bifurcation of Initially Quasi-periodic System Attractors Proceedings of 18th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise.
2001	Existence of Periodic Orbits in Grazing Bifurcations of Impacting Mechanical Oscillators Nonlinearity 14 1517-1542
2000	On the Origin and Bifurcations of Stick-slip Oscillations Physica D 136 280-302
2000	Repetitive Gait of Passive Bipedal Mechanisms in a Three-Dimensional Environment J. Biomech. Eng
1999	3D Passive Walkers: Finding Periodic Gaits in the presence of Discontinuities Nonlinear Dynamics
1999	Systems with a preferred spin direction Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 455 933-941
1999	Experiments on the Onset of Impacting Motion Using a Pipe Conveying Fluid Nonlinear Dynamics 19 261-271
1998	Discontinuities in Friction Modeling Information missing
1997	Universal limit mapping in grazing bifurcations Phys. Rev. E. 55 266-270
1997	Bifurcations caused by grazing incidence in many degrees of freedom impact oscillators. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 453
1996	Some results on the electrostatic energy of ionic crystals. Can J. Chem 74 885-891
1996	Hopprepskurvan (The skipping-rope curve) Elementa 79 142-148
1995	Existance of periodic solutions in grazing bifurcation of impacting mechanical oscillators. International conference on nonlinear dynamics, chaotic and complex systems (NDCCS´95).
1994	Experimental investigation of some consequences of low velocity impact in the chaotic dynamics of a mechanical systems. Phil. Trans R. Soc. London A 347 439-448
1994	A computer implementation for the interactive study of cell mappings. Nonlinearity and chaos in engineering mechanics
1991	Non-periodic motion caused by grazing incidence in an impact oscillator J. Sound & Vibration 145 279-297

Projects

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Period	Title	Area
2010-2012	Muscle-driven human movements	Biomechanics
2009-2010	Balloon mechanics	Theoretical and computational mechanics
2002-2006	Modelling, simulation and control of nonsmooth dynamical systems - SICONOS	Theoretical and computational mechanics
2002-2005	New measurement techniques of complex attractors of mechanical systems	Theoretical and computational mechanics
1997-2002	Human and machine locomotion	Theoretical and computational mechanics
1995-2015	Analytical and statistical mechanics for systems of many charged particles	Theoretical and computational mechanics

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