Bifurcation, Chaos and Control -- Chaotic Clocks: A Paradigm for the Evolution of Noise in Machines -- Explorations into the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Single DOF System Coupled to a Wideband Auto-Parametric Vibration Absorber -- Adaptive Partial Observers with Application to Time-Varying Chaotic Systems -- Nonlinear Dynamics of a Heavy Material Particle along a Circle Which Rotates and Optimal Control -- Bifurcation and Chaos in Mechanical Applications: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Their Control -- Nonlinear Normal Modes and Chaotic Motions in Oscillatory Chains -- Patterns of Bifurcation Suppressing Escape at Internal Resonance -- Mechanical Systems -- Spatial Motion of CVT-Chains -- Nonlinear Phenomena in Microelectromechanical Resonators -- Dynamics and Parametric Identification of Geared Rotordynamic Systems -- Global Bifurcations of Nonlinear Thermoelastic Microbeams Subject to Electrodynamic Actuation -- Nonlinear Interaction in MHD Bearings under Oscillating Electric Fields -- Parametrically Excited MEMS-Based Filters -- The Chaotic Oscillations of High-Speed Milling -- On the Dynamics of a Railway Freight Wagon Wheelset with Dry Friction Damping -- Structural Systems -- Post-Critical Finite, Planar Dynamics of a Circular Arch: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Transitions to Nonregular Motions -- Phase Space Warping -- Time Integration Techniques to Investigate the Long-Term Behaviour of Dissipative Structural Systems -- Identification and Construction of Reduced Order Models for Infinite-Dimensional Systems in Nonlinear Elastodynamics -- The Non-Linear Dynamics of Thin Walled Shell Structures -- Influence of Boundary Conditions Relaxation on Panel Flutter -- Solutions of a Shallow Arch under Fast and Slow Excitations -- Nonlinear Oscillations of a Buckled Mechanism used as a Vibration Isolator -- Nonsmooth Dynamics -- Nonsmooth Dynamics of a Double-Belt Friction Oscillator -- Corner-Collision and Grazing-Sliding -- Dynamics of Discontinuous Systems with Imperfections and Noise -- Stick-Slip Whirl Interaction in Drillstring Dynamics -- The Mapping Dynamics of a Three-Piecewise Linear System under a Periodic Excitation -- Two Dimensional Map for Impact Oscillator with Drift -- Dynamics of Mechanical Systems with Soft Impacts -- Nonlinear Dynamics of Non-Smooth Mechanical Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Studies -- Delay and Random Systems -- Global Dynamics of a Duffing System with Delayed Velocity Feedback -- Noise-Induced Synchronization and Stochastic Resonance in a Bistable System -- Delay Equations with Fluctuating Delay: Application to Variable Speed Machining -- Vertical Dynamics of Riding Cars under Stochastic and Harmonic Base Excitations -- Control of Systems and Processes -- A Delayed-Position Feedback Controller for Cranes -- Controlled Motions of Multibody Systems along a Plane -- Active Damping of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Drill-Strings -- Dynamic Vibration Absorber for Friction Induced Oscillations -- Control of Limit Cycle Oscillations -- Optimal Control of Retrieval of a Tethered Subsatellite -- Passive Vibration Control by Nonlinear Energy Pumping -- Motion Control of an Underactuated Manipulator by Using High-Frequency Excitation -- Chaos Control and Synchronization -- Control and Synchronization of Homoclinic Chaos -- Methods and Examples of Controlling Chaos in Mechanical Systems -- The Largest Lyapunov Exponent of Dynamical Systems with Time Delay.

The interest of the applied mechanics community towards chaotic dynamics of engineering systems has exploded in the last fifteen years. Today, it is generally accepted that nonlinear vibration problems of advanced systems should be addressed through the combined use of analytical, computational, geometrical and experimental approaches, by paying also attention to the interaction with control features. The outstanding points of these proceedings are a coherent compendium of the current state of theory and applications of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics in mechanics, along with their control. Subject areas include: Bifurcation and chaos, mechanical and structural systems, nonsmooth dynamics, delay and random systems, control of systems and processes, synchronization and control of chaos. Major achievements are highlighted as regards: Complex systems and processes for classical and innovative applications, features of nonlinear interactions, patterns of novel bifurcations of non-smooth systems, dimensionality and reduced-order models of continuous systems, exploitation of dynamical systems properties for applications, implications of chaos for design and operating conditions, control of spatio-temporal dynamics.