Showing papers on "Multiple-scale analysis published in 2010"

The dynamic behavior of MEMS arch resonators actuated electrically

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the dynamic behavior of clamped–clamped micromachined arches when actuated by a small DC electrostatic load superimposed to an AC harmonic load. A Galerkin-based reduced-order model is derived and utilized to simulate the static behavior and the eigenvalue problem under the DC load actuation. The natural frequencies and mode shapes of the arch are calculated for various values of DC voltages and initial rises. In addition, the dynamic behavior of the arch under the actuation of a DC load superimposed to an AC harmonic load is investigated. A perturbation method, the method of multiple scales, is used to obtain analytically the forced vibration response of the arch due to DC and small AC loads. Results of the perturbation method are compared with those obtained by numerically integrating the reduced-order model equations. The non-linear resonance frequency and the effective non-linearity of the arch are calculated as a function of the initial rise and the DC and AC loads. The results show locally softening-type behavior for the resonance frequency for all DC and AC loads as well as the initial rise of the arch.

Chaotic vibrations of an orthotropic FGM rectangular plate based on third-order shear deformation theory

Abstract: In this paper, an analysis on the nonlinear dynamics and chaos of a simply supported orthotropic functionally graded material (FGM) rectangular plate in thermal environment and subjected to parametric and external excitations is presented. Heat conduction and temperature-dependent material properties are both taken into account. The material properties are graded in the thickness direction according to a simple power law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. Based on the Reddy’s third-order share deformation plate theory, the governing equations of motion for the orthotropic FGM rectangular plate are derived by using the Hamilton’s principle. The Galerkin procedure is applied to the partial differential governing equations of motion to obtain a three-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system. The resonant case considered here is 1:2:4 internal resonance, principal parametric resonance-subharmonic resonance of order 1/2. Based on the averaged equation obtained by the method of multiple scales, the phase portrait, waveform and Poincare map are used to analyze the periodic and chaotic motions of the orthotropic FGM rectangular plate. It is found that the motions of the orthotropic FGM plate are chaotic under certain conditions.

Parametric vibrations and stability of an axially accelerating string guided by a non-linear elastic foundation

Abstract: Parametric vibrations and stability of an axially accelerating string guided by a non-linear elastic foundation are studied analytically. The axial speed, as the source of parametric vibrations, is assumed to involve a mean speed, along with small harmonic variations. The method of multiple scales is applied to the governing non-linear equation of motion and then the natural frequencies and mode shape equations of the system are derived using the equation of order one, and satisfying the compatibility conditions. Using the equation of order epsilon, the solvability conditions are obtained for three distinct cases of axial acceleration frequency. For all cases, the stability areas of system are constructed analytically. Finally, some numerical simulations are presented to highlight the effects of system parameters on vibration, natural frequencies, frequency–response curves, stability, and bifurcation points of the system.

Dynamic responses of functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic shells with closed-circuit surface conditions using the method of multiple scales

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) free vibration analysis of simply supported, doubly curved functionally graded (FG) magneto-electro-elastic shells with closed-circuit surface conditions is presented using the method of perturbation. By means of the direct elimination, we firstly reduce the twenty-nine basic equations of 3D magneto-electro-elasticity to ten differential equations in terms of ten primary variables of magnetic, electric and elastic fields. The method of multiple scales is introduced to eliminate the secular terms in various order problems of the present formulation so that the present asymptotic expansion to the primary field variables leads to be uniform and feasible. Through the mathematical manipulation of nondimensionalization, asymptotic expansion and successive integration, we finally obtain recurrent sets of governing equations for various order problems. The coupled classical shell theory (CST) is derived as a first-order approximation to the 3D magneto-electro-elasticity. Higher-order modifications can be further determined by considering the solvability and orthonormality conditions in a systematic and consistent way. Some benchmark solutions for the free vibration analysis of FG elastic and piezoelectric plates are used to validate the performance of the present asymptotic formulation. The influence of the material-property gradient index on the natural frequencies and corresponding modal field variables of the FG shells is mainly concerned.

Resonant response of a non-linear vibro-impact system to combined deterministic harmonic and random excitations

Abstract: The resonant resonance response of a single-degree-of-freedom non-linear vibro-impact oscillator, with cubic non-linearity items, to combined deterministic harmonic and random excitations is investigated The method of multiple scales is used to derive the equations of modulation of amplitude and phase The effects of damping, detuning, and intensity of random excitations are analyzed by means of perturbation and stochastic averaging method The theoretical analyses verified by numerical simulations show that when the intensity of the random excitation increases, the non-trivial steady-state solution may change from a limit cycle to a diffused limit cycle Under certain conditions, impact system may have two steady-state responses One is a non-impact response, and the other is either an impact one or a non-impact one

Unified Theory Based on Parameter Scaling for Derivation of Nonlinear Wave Equations in Bubbly Liquids

Abstract: We propose a systematic derivation method of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation and nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation for nonlinear waves in bubbly liquids on the basis of appropriate choices of scaling relations of physical parameters. The basic equations are composed of a set of conservation equations for mass and momentum and the equation of bubble dynamics in a two-fluid model. The scaling of parameters is related to the wavelength, frequency, propagation speed, and amplitude of waves concerned. With the help of the method of multiple scales, appropriate choices of the parameter scaling allow us to derive various nonlinear wave equations systematically from a set of basic equations. The result shows that the one-dimensional nonlinear propagation of a long wave with a low frequency is described by the KdVB equation, and that of an envelope of a carrier wave with a high frequency by the NLS equation. Thus, we establish a unified theory of derivation of nonlinear wave equations in bubbly liquids.

Nonlinear analysis of an elastic cable under harmonic excitation

Abstract: The nonlinear behavior of an elastic cable subjected to harmonic excitation is studied and solved. The method of multiple scales perturbation is applied to analyze the response of the nonlinear system near the simultaneous principle primary and internal resonance. The stability of the proposed analytic nonlinear solution near the simultaneous primary-internal resonance is studied and the stability condition is investigated. The effect of different parameters on the steady state responses of the vibrating system is studied and discussed using frequency response equations. The numerical solutions and chaotic response of the nonlinear system of the elastic cable for different parameters are also studied.

Analytical study of the nonlinear behavior of a shape memory oscillator: Part I-primary resonance and free response at low temperatures

Abstract: In this work, the response of a single-degree-of-freedom shape memory oscillator subjected to the excitation harmonic has been investigated. Equation of motion is formulated assuming a polynomial constitutive model to describe the restitution force of the oscillator. Here the method of multiple scales is used to obtain an approximate solution to the equations of the motion describing the modulation equations of amplitude and phase, and to investigate theoretically its stability. This work is presented in two parts. In Part I of this study we showed the modeling of the problem where the free vibration of the oscillator at low temperature is analyzed, where martensitic phase is stable. Part I also presents the investigation dynamics of the primary resonance of the pseudoelastic oscillator. Part II of the work is focused on the study in the secondary resonance of a pseudoelastic oscillator using the model developed in Part I. The analysis of the system in Part I as well as in Part II is accomplished numerically by means of phase portraits, Lyapunov exponents, power spectrum and Poincare maps. Frequency-response curves are constructed for shape memory oscillators for various excitation levels and detuning parameter. A rich class of solutions and bifurcations, including jump phenomena and saddle-node bifurcations, is found.

Nonlinear behavior of a rotor-AMB system under multi-parametric excitations

Abstract: A rotor-active magnetic bearing (AMB) system subjected to a periodically time-varying stiffness with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities under multi-parametric excitations is studied and solved. The method of multiple scales is applied to analyze the response of two modes of a rotor-AMB system with multi-parametric excitations and time-varying stiffness near the simultaneous primary and internal resonance. The stability of the steady state solution for that resonance is determined and studied using Runge-Kutta method of fourth order. It is shown that the system exhibits many typical non-linear behaviors including multiple-valued solutions, jump phenomenon, hardening and softening non-linearities and chaos in the second mode of the system. The effects of the different parameters on the steady state solutions are investigated and discussed also. A comparison to published work is reported.

Spring pendulum: Parametric excitation vs an external force

Abstract: The method of multiple scales is applied to obtain an approximate solution to the nonlinear dynamic equations describing a spring pendulum with the vertical oscillations of the suspension point up to and including the fourth order corrections. The solutions of these equations, where an external force enters the equations multiplicatively, are compared with the solution considered earlier, for the behavior of a spring pendulum subject to an external force, which enters the appropriate equations additively. It turns out that in lower orders in small parameter, the two solutions coincide for the case where the external force and viscous damping force are equally small, but they differ when the damping is much smaller than the external force.

Nonlinear dynamics of a three-beam structure with attached mass and three-mode interactions

Abstract: Nonlinear dynamics of elastic structures with two-mode interactions have been extensively studied in the literature. In this work, nonlinear forced response of elastic structures with essential inertial nonlinearities undergoing three-mode interactions is studied. More specifically, a three-beam structural system with attached mass is considered, and its multidegree-of-freedom discretized model for the structure undergoing planar motions is carefully studied. Linear modal characteristics of the structure with uniform beams depend on the length ratios of the three beams, the mass of the particle relative to that of the structure, and the location of the mass particle along the beams. The discretized model is studied for both external and parametric resonances for parameter combinations resulting in three-mode interactions. For the external excitation case, focus is on the system with 1:2:3 internal resonances with the external excitation frequency near the middle natural frequency. For the case of the structure with 1:2:5 internal resonances, the problem involving simultaneous principal parametric resonance of the middle mode and a combination resonance between the lowest and the highest modal frequencies is investigated. This case requires a higher-order approximation in the method of multiple time scales. For both cases, equilibrium and bifurcating solutions of the slow-flow equations are studied in detail. Many pitchfork, saddle-node, and Hopf bifurcations appear in the amplitude response of the three-beam structure, thus resulting in complex multimode responses in different parameter regions.

Non-Linear Vibration and Stability of Moving Strip With Time–Dependent Tension in Rolling Process

Abstract: The strip with a time-dependent tension moves, namely a harmonically varying tension about a constant initial tension. The nonlinear vibration model of moving strip between two mills with time-dependent tension was established. Approximate solutions were obtained using the method of multiple scales. Depending on the variation of the tension, three distinct cases arise: frequency away from zero or two times the natural frequency, frequency close to zero, frequency close to two times the natural frequency. For frequency close to zero and away from zero and two times the natural frequency, the system is always stable. For frequency close to two times the natural frequency, the stability is analyzed respectively when the trivial solution exists and the nontrivial solution exists. Numerical simulation was made on some 1660 mm tandem rolling mill, and the stable regions and unstable regions for parametric resonance are determined with different cases. The rolling speed and the thickness of strip have strong influences on the stability of principle parametric resonances. But the distance between two mills has little influence on the stability of principle parametric resonances.

Analytical and experimental studies on nonlinear characteristics of an L-shape beam structure

Abstract: This paper focuses on theoretical and experimental investigations of planar nonlinear vibrations and chaotic dynamics of an L-shape beam structure subjected to fundamental harmonic excitation, which is composed of two beams with right-angled L-shape. The ordinary differential governing equation of motion for the L-shape beam structure with two-degree-of-freedom is firstly derived by applying the substructure synthesis method and the Lagrangian equation. Then, the method of multiple scales is utilized to obtain a four-dimensional averaged equation of the L-shape beam structure. Numerical simulations, based on the mathematical model, are presented to analyze the nonlinear responses and chaotic dynamics of the L-shape beam structure. The bifurcation diagram, phase portrait, amplitude spectrum and Poincare map are plotted to illustrate the periodic and chaotic motions of the L-shape beam structure. The existence of the Shilnikov type multi-pulse chaotic motion is also observed from the numerical results. Furthermore, experimental investigations of the L-shape beam structure are performed, and there is a qualitative agreement between the numerical and experimental results. It is also shown that out-of-plane motion may appear intuitively.

Transverse nonlinear vibrations of a circular spinning disk with a varying rotating speed

Abstract: We analyze the transverse nonlinear vibrations of a rotating flexible disk subjected to a rotating point force with a periodically varying rotating speed. Based on Hamilton’s principle, the nonlinear governing equations of motion (coupled equations among the radial, tangential and transverse displacements) are derived for the rotating flexible disk. When the in-plane inertia is ignored and a stress function is introduced, the three nonlinearly coupled partial differential equations are reduced to two nonlinearly coupled partial differential equations. According to Galerkin’s approach, a four-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system governing the weakly split resonant modes is derived. The resonant case considered here is 1:1:2:2 internal resonance and a critical speed resonance. The primary parametric resonance for the first-order sin and cos modes and the fundamental parametric resonance for the second-order sin and cos modes are also considered. The method of multiple scales is used to obtain a set of eight-dimensional nonlinear averaged equations. Based on the averaged equations, using numerical simulations, the influence of different parameters on the nonlinear vibrations of the spinning disk is detected. It is concluded that there exist complicated nonlinear behaviors including the periodic, period-n and multi-pulse type chaotic motions for the spinning disk with a varying rotating speed. It is also found that among all parameters, the damping and excitation have great influence on the nonlinear responses of the spinning disk with a varying rotating speed.

Analytical study of the nonlinear behavior of a shape memory oscillator: Part II—resonance secondary

Abstract: In Part II of this work, we investigated the dynamics of the shape memory oscillator, in the particular case of the secondary resonances. We used the equation of motion developed in Part I (Piccirillo et al., Nonlinear Dyn., 2009). The method of multiple scales is used to obtain an approximate solution to the governing equations of motion. To examine subharmonic and superharmonic resonances, we need to order the excitation so that it appears at same time as the free-oscillation part of the solution. Firstly, the analysis is made for the superharmonic resonance where we find the frequency-response curves and these curves show the influences of the damping, nonlinearity, and amplitude of the excitation. Results showed that it occurs in the jump phenomena, bifurcation saddle-node, and motions periodic the period-2. In the subharmonic resonance, we note that it does not occur in the jump phenomena, but on the other hand, we found the regions where the nontrivial solutions of the subharmonic resonance exit. The frequency-response curves show the behavior of the oscillator for the variation of the control parameters. Numerical simulations are performed and the simulation results are visualized by means of the phase portrait, Poincare map, and Lyapunov exponents.

Validity and accuracy of solutions for nonlinear vibration analyses of suspended cables with one-to-one internal resonance

Abstract: This study investigates the accuracy of nonlinear vibration analyses of a suspended cable, which possesses quadratic and cubic nonlinearities, with one-to-one internal resonance. To this end, we derive approximate solutions for primary resonance using two different approaches. In the first approach, the method of multiple scales is directly applied to governing equations, which are nonlinear partial differential equations. In the second approach, we first discretize the governing equations by using Galerkin’s procedure and then apply the shooting method. The accuracy of the results obtained by these approaches is confirmed by comparing them with results obtained by the finite difference method.

Coupled Method of Homotopy Perturbation Method and Variational Approach for Solution to Nonlinear Cubic-Quintic Duffing Oscillator

Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for solving approximate analytical higher order solutions for strong nonlinear Duffing oscillators with cubic-quintic nonlinear restoring force. The system is conservative and with odd nonlinearity. The new approach couples Homotopy Perturbation Method with Variational method. These approximate solutions are valid for small as well as large amplitudes of oscillation. In addition, it is not restricted to the presence of a small parameter such as in the classical perturbation method. Illustrative examples are presented to verify accuracy and explicitness of the approximate solutions.

Nonlinear Vibrations of a Thin Plate Under Simultaneous Internal and External Resonances

Abstract: The dynamic behavior of a rectangular thin plate under parametric and external excitations is investigated. The motion of the thin plate is modeled by coupled second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Their approximate solutions are sought by applying the method of multiple scales. A reduced system of four first-order ordinary differential equations is determined to describe the time variation of the amplitudes and phases of the vibration in the horizontal and vertical directions. The steady-state response and the stability of the solutions for various parameters are studied numerically, using the frequency-response function and the phase-plane methods. It is also shown that the system parameters have different effects on the nonlinear response of the thin plate. Moreover, the chaotic motion of the thin plate is found by numerical simulation.

Stability of a 2-dimensional Mathieu-type system with quasiperiodic coefficients

Abstract: In the following we consider a 2-dimensional system of ODEs containing quasiperiodic terms. The system is proposed as an extension of Mathieu-type equations to higher dimensions, with emphasis on how resonance between the internal frequencies leads to a loss of stability. The 2-d system has two ‘natural’ frequencies when the time-dependent terms are switched off, and it is internally driven by quasiperiodic terms in the same frequencies. Stability charts in the parameter space are generated first using numerical simulations and Floquet theory. While some instability regions are easy to anticipate, there are some surprises: within instability zones, small islands of stability develop, and unusual ‘arcs’ of instability arise also. The transition curves are analyzed using the method of harmonic balance, and we find we can use this method to easily predict the ‘resonance curves’ from which bands of instability emanate. In addition, the method of multiple scales is used to examine the islands of stability near the 1:1 resonance.

Nonequilibrium dynamics of a fast oscillator coupled to Glauber spins

Abstract: A fast harmonic oscillator is linearly coupled with a system of Ising spins that are in contact with a thermal bath, and evolve under a slow Glauber dynamics at dimensionless temperature theta. The spins have a coupling constant proportional to the oscillator position. The oscillator spin interaction produces a second order phase transition at theta = 1 with the oscillator position as its order parameter: the equilibrium position is zero for theta > 1 and nonzero for theta < 1. For theta < 1, the dynamics of this system is quite different from relaxation to equilibrium. For most initial conditions, the oscillator position performs modulated oscillations about one of the stable equilibrium positions with a long relaxation time. For random initial conditions and a sufficiently large spin system, the unstable zero position of the oscillator is stabilized after a relaxation time proportional to theta. If the spin system is smaller, the situation is the same until the oscillator position is close to zero, then it crosses over to a neighborhood of a stable equilibrium position about which it keeps oscillating for an exponentially long relaxation time. These results of stochastic simulations are predicted by modulation equations obtained from a multiple scale analysis of macroscopic equations.