Dynamic integrity: three decades of progress from macro to nano mechanics -- Dynamical integrity: a novel paradigm for evaluating load carrying capacity -- Interpreting and predicting experimental response of micro and nano devices via dynamical integrity -- Nonlinear dynamics, safety and control structures liable to interactive unstable buckling -- Local versus global dynamics and control of an AFM model in a safety perspective -- Global analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems.

This is the first book which exploits concepts and tools of global nonlinear dynamics for bridging the gap between theoretical and practical stability of systems/structures, and for possibly enhancing the engineering design in macro-, micro- and nano-mechanics. Addressed topics include complementing theoretical and practical stability to achieve load carrying capacity; dynamical integrity for analyzing global dynamics, for interpreting/predicting experimental behavior, for getting hints towards engineering design; techniques for control of chaos; response of uncontrolled and controlled system/models in applied mechanics and structural dynamics by also considerung the effect of system imperfections; from relatively simple systems to multidimensional models representative of real world applications; potential and expected impact of global dynamics for engineering design.