chaos

The foreword to Olexandr Kulchytskyi’s article «Order or Chaos in Modern Philosophy» (1939) analyzes its content from a historical perspective and identifies its current significance. It is assumed that on the eve of the Second World War, the Ukrainian philosopher aimed to interest the Ukrainian public in modern philosophy, as he considered it useful in understanding the political life of the time and effective in counteracting party propaganda.

The paper is devoted to problem of analysis, identification and prediction of the presence of damages, which above a certain level may present a serious threat to the engineering (vibrating) structures such as different technical systems (hydrotechnical equipment, hydroelectrical station engines, atomic reactors ones etc). Usually change of structural dynamic properties due to environmental, operational and other effects allows to determine the existence, location and size of damages.