Mechanics provides the link between mathematics and practical engineering app-cations. It
is one of the oldest sciences, and many famous scientists have left and will leave their mark …

The motion of four different spinning tops was filmed with a high-speed video camera. Unlike
pointed tops, tops with a rounded peg precess initially about a vertical axis that lies well …

This thesis deals with the time integration of rigid mechanical systems with unilateral
contacts and/or friction. Such systems are modeled within this thesis in a non-smooth way, ie …

This paper is an experimental investigation of a round uniform disk rolling on a horizontal
surface. Two methods for experimentally determining the loss of contact of the rolling disk …

This paper demonstrates that the conditions for the existence of a dissipation-induced
heteroclinic orbit between the inverted and noninverted states of a tippe top are determined …

A rattleback is a rigid, semielliptic toy which exhibits unintuitive behavior; when it is spun in
one direction, it soon begins pitching and stops spinning, then it starts to spin in the opposite …

Experimental and theoretical results are presented concerning the rise of a spinning egg. It
was found that an egg rises quickly while it is sliding and then more slowly when it starts …

The celebrated mathematician John E. Littlewood noted that a hoop with an attached mass
rolling on a ground plane may exhibit self-induced jumping. Subsequent works showed that …

The article is devoted to the study of the motion of a rigid body of revolution on a rigid and
perfectly smooth horizontal surface under the influence of the uniform gravitational field …

This book collects some papers dealing with actual Civil Engineering problems. The
approach is in the line of the Italian-French school and therefore deeply couples mechanics …