Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Vibration Problems / Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (PDF)

Professor Sadok Sassi is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University. He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering, 1986 ) from "Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tunis", Tunisia, and M.Sc. (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) from the "Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal", Canada. His major areas of research interests include: Mechanical Vibrations; Machinery Dynamics, Modeling, and Numerical Simulation; Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis of Rotating Machines; and Control of Instabilities in Mechanical Systems. He has published more than 80 papers in respected international journals and conferences.

Jirí Náprstek finished his studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering - Czech Technical University in 1966 in the discipline of Engineering Mechanics. He has been awarded by PhD. degree in 1972 and the title of DSc. was granted to him in 1996. Jirí Náprstek is the chairman of the Czech Society of Mechanics, chairman of several panels of prestigious medals and awards domestic and worldwide. He has spent his professional life mostly in studies of various aspects of Stochastic and Nonlinear Dynamics, Dynamic Stability, High Order Non-holonomic Systems, Stochastic Resonance, Flow Induced Vibrations, Effects of Inertial Moving Load and other non-selfadjoint systems. He published about 400 papers in international IF journals and proceedings of prestigious conferences. He is a co-author of 4 monographs and coordinator of 5 edited books. J. Náprstek was chairman of 3 international and 8 national conferences on Engineering Mechanics and Dynamics. He organized mini-symposia oriented to Nonlinear Dynamics at many prestigious international conferences. For his scientific activity he has been awarded by many international and domestic medals and prices.

Professor Paritosh Biswas, MSc (Cal), PhD (Science) is a Retired Principal of a College affiliated to the University of North Bengal (Raja Rammohanpur, Darjeeling District, India). He