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1. Introduction 1 <p>2. Straightforward Expansions and Sources of Nonuniformity 23</p> <p>3. The Method of Strained Coordinates 56</p> <p>4. The Methods of Matched and Composite Asymptotic Expansions 110</p> <p>5. Variation of Parameters and Methods of Averaging 159</p> <p>6. The Method of Multiple Scales 228</p> <p>7. Asymptotic Solutions of Linear Equations 308</p> <p>References and Author Index 387</p> <p>Subject Index 417</p>

Ali H. Nayfeh received his BS in engineering science and his MS and PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. He holds honorary doctorates from Marine Technical University, Russia, Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Politechnika Szczecinska, Poland. He is currently University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the Editor of the Wiley Series in Nonlinear Science and Editor in Chief of Nonlinear Dynamics and the Journal of Vibration and Control.

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