Proc. edited by A.V. Balakrishnan and J.P. Zolesio, 1988, 320 pp., ISBN 0-911575-37-5, $90.00

This volume comprises the proceedings of "The Comcon Workshop on Stabilization of Flexible Structures," held in Montpellier, France in December 1987. The Workshop was organized under the auspices of the Comcon Conference Board. The Workshop was sponsored by the following French institutions:

~ Centre National de la Recherche Scienfitifque (CNRS)
~ Centre de Mathématique Appliquées (CMA) of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mines de Paris (ENSMP) at Sophia Antipolis
~ Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique (INRIA)
~ L.R. Montpellier Technopole.

A.V. Balakrishnan
A Theory of Nonlinear Damping in Flexible Structures ..... 1

H.T. Banks, R.H. Fabiano, and Y. Wang
Estimation of Boltzmann Damping Coefficients in Beam Models ..... 13

F. Conrad
Stabilization of Vibrating Beams by a Specific Feedback ..... 36

G. Da Prato and J.P. Zolesio
A Boundary Control Problem for a Parabolic Equation in Noncylindrical Domain ..... 52

M.C. Delfour
Dynamical Control and Design of Flexible Structure ..... 62

P. Duchon, A. Mamode, and F. Mercier
Presentation in the CNES for Infinite Dimensional Optimization ..... 92

H. Frankowska
A General Multiplier Rule for Infinite Dimensional Optimization Problems with Constraints ..... 99

Goong Chen
Theory, Designs and Applications of Point Stabilizers for Dynamic Structures ..... 117

J. Leblond
Destabilization of a Vibrating Beam by Introduction of an Observation Delay ..... 144

Walter Littman and Lawrence Markus
Some Recent Results on Control and Stabilization of Flexible Structures ..... 151

J.P. Marmorat and J. Leblond
Stabilization of a Vibrating Beam: A Regularity Result ..... 162

L. Passeron, C. Truchi, and J.P. Zolesio
Dynamic Modeling, Control Theory and Stabilization for Flexible Structures; Industrial Applications at Aerospatiale, Cannes ..... 184

Michael Pedersen
Stabilization of Partial Differential Equations by Finite-Dimensional Boundary Feedback Control: A Pseudo-Differential Approach ..... 217

G. Rodriguez
Random Field Estimation Approach to Multibody Dynamics ..... 236

G. Rodriguez
Spatially Recursive Filtering and Smoothing for Multibody Dynamics ..... 255

R. Temam
On the Self-Stabilization of Damped Flexible Structures ..... 273

C. Truchi and J.P. Zolesio
Wave Equation in Time Periodical Domain ..... 282

J.P. Zolesio
Existence Result for the Balakrishnan Enhancement of a Flexible Structure When B* Ranges in H ..... 295