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FRANCIS C. MOON, PhD, is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is a former chairman of the university's theoretical and applied dynamics department and former director of its School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Moon has authored numerous books, including Superconducting Levitation and Chaotic and Fractal Dynamics, both published by Wiley.

Partial table of contents:

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS IN MANUFACTURING PROCESSES.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Manufacturing Processes (F. Moon & M. Johnson).

Dynamic Modeling and Control of Machining Processes (A. Ulsoy).

Chatter Dynamics in Sheet-Rolling Processes (R. Johnson & H. Cherukuri).

Modeling, Analysis, and Characterization of Machining Dynamics (I. Minis & B. Berger).

Applications of Perturbation Methods to Tool Chatter Dynamics (A. Nayfeh, et al.).

Nonlinear Dynamics and Surface Integrity in Machining Ceramics (G. Zhang, et al.).

NEW METHODS IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL.

Nonlinear Dynamics with Impacts and Friction (S. Shaw & B. Feeny).

Controlling Chaos in Mechanical Systems (E. Barreto, et al.).

Experimental Control of High-Dimensional Chaos (D. Christini, et.

al.).

Index.