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Why should one bother to study non-smooth systems? After all, most models used in engineering practise are smooth and those which are non-smooth are often studied by smooth approximations. And why should one like to consider bifurcations of non-smooth systems? The number of textbooks on bifurcation theory is large and the field of bifurcations is becoming a classical subfield of dynamical systems. In this introductory chapter we explain why we do study non-smooth models and we will give a motivation for this monograph. After discussing different types of non-smooth systems and their characteristics and after giving the basic terminology, we present a literature survey and define the objective of the book. An outline of the succeeding chapters is given next.
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Leine, R.I., Nijmeijer, H. (2004). Introduction. In: Dynamics and Bifurcations of Non-Smooth Mechanical Systems. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44398-8_1
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