Introduction (including string research time line) from Tim Molteno's Ph.D Thesis: Chaos and Crisis in Strings (Otago University, 1994). And his string references in BibTeX form.
Research paper on strings.
Referemces:
T. C. A. Molteno and N. B. Tufillaro,
An experimental investigation into the dynamics of a string,
(draft, unpublished).
File name: str_5.pdf
N. B. Tufillaro, P. Wyckoff, R. Brown, T. Schreiber,
and T. Molteno,
Topological time
series analysis of a string experiment and its synchronized
model,
Physical Review E 51 (1), 164-174 (1995).
File Name: str_4.pdf,
top_8.pdf
T. C. A. Molteno and N. B. Tufillaro,
Torus doubling and chaotic string vibrations: experimental
results,
The Journal of Sound and Vibration 137 (2), 327 (1990).
File Name: str_3.pdf
N. B. Tufillaro,
Torsional parametric oscillations in wires,
European Journal of Physics 11, 122 (1990).
File Name: str_2.pdf
N. B. Tufillaro,
Nonlinear and chaotic string vibrations,
American Journal of Physics 57 (5), 408 (1989).
File Name: str_1.pdf
