Waves, normal modes and frequencies in periodic and near-periodic rods. Part II

A systematic approach to the study of normal modes and frequencies of disordered periodic rods is presented within a new transfer matrix framework proposed earlier by the authors. The normal frequency structure and mode localization of multiply-disorder periodic rods are investigated. The Monte Carlo and the perturbation method are applied to study the effects of material parameter uncertainties on normal modes and frequencies of randomly-disordered periodic rods. Some intricate aspects are investigated statistically, and it is shown that for this strongly-coupled elastic system, multiple and/or random disorders lead to more localized modes in or near stop-bands in a more complex way. In addition, high frequency wave localization is a typical feature of such a strongly-coupled but randomly-disordered periodic rod system.     

Nonlinear normal modes and primary resonance of horizontally supported Jeffcott rotor

The nonlinear normal modes of a horizontally supported Jeffcott rotor are investigated. In contrast with a vertically supported rotor, there are localized and nonlocalized nonlinear normal modes because the linear natural frequencies in the horizontal and vertical directions are slightly different due to both gravity and the nonlinearity of restoring force. Reflecting such nonlinear normal modes, the frequency response curves are characterized in the primary resonance. In the case where the eccentricity is small, i.e., the response amplitude is small, the whirling motion is localized in the horizontal or vertical direction in the resonance. On the other hand, when the eccentricity is large, two kinds of whirling motion, which are localized in the vertical direction and nonlocalized in any direction, coexist simultaneously in a region of rotational speed. Experiments are conducted, and the theoretically predicted nonlinear responses based on localized and nonlocalized nonlinear normal modes are observed.     

Steady states and nonlinear buckling of cable-suspended beam systems

This paper deals with the equilibria of an elastically-coupled cable-suspended beam system, where the beam is assumed to be extensible and subject to a compressive axial load. When no vertical load is applied, necessary and sufficient conditions in order to have nontrivial solutions are established, and their explicit closed-form expressions are found. In particular, the stationary solutions are shown to exhibit at most two non-vanishing Fourier modes and the critical values of the axial-load parameter which produce their pitchfork bifurcation (buckling) are established. Depending on two dimensionless parameters, the complete set of resonant modes is devised. As expected, breakdown of the pitchfork bifurcations under perturbation is observed when a distributed transversal load is applied to the beam. In this case, both unimodal and bimodal stationary solutions are studied in detail. Finally, the more complex behavior occurring when trimodal solutions are involved is briefly sketched.     

Natural transverse vibrations of a rotating rod

We study the natural transverse vibration frequencies and modes of a rod rotating about an axis fixed at an end of the rod. The cases of low, moderately high, and asymptotically high angular velocities are considered. The case of a homogeneous rod with clamped left and free right end is considered in detail. A new constructive algorithm based on the notion of “sagittary function” is used to find the dependences of the natural frequencies and mode shapes on the angular velocity for lower vibration modes. We establish evolution to the model corresponding to vibrations of a rapidly rotating thread subjected to the centrifugal inertial forces. It is shown that the natural frequencies grow practically linearly with increasing angular rotation velocity. The results obtained can be of interest in technical applications, e.g., when studying vibrations of sensor elements in high-precision instruments or of rapidly rotating elongated mechanism elements (turbine or propeller blades, etc).     

Acoustic stop bands in almost-periodic and weakly randomized stratified media： perturbation analysis

In this paper, we analyze the effect of both deter- ministic and random perturbations of a regular multi-layered elastic structure on its stop band properties. The tool of choice is the transfer matrix method, which is both versatile and easy to implement. In both cases, we find that the stop-bands widen. We observe the appearance of very narrow pass-bands within the stop-bands, which can be observed in other instances in optics.     

Intrinsic localized modes in microresonator arrays and their relationship to nonlinear vibration modes

Intrinsic Localized Modes (ILMs) are defined as localizations due to strong intrinsic nonlinearity within an array of perfect, periodically repeating oscillators. Such nonlinear phenomena have been studied for a number of years in the solid-state physics literature. Energy can become localized at a specific location in a discrete system as a result of the nonlinearity of the system and not due to any defects or impurities within the considered systems. Here, such mode localization is studied in the context of microcantilever arrays and microresonator arrays, and it is explored if an ILM can be realized as a forced nonlinear normal mode or nonlinear vibration mode. The method of multiple scales and methods to construct nonlinear normal modes are used to study nonlinear vibrations of microresonator arrays. Investigations reported in this article suggest that it is possible to realize an ILM as a forced nonlinear vibration mode. These results are believed to be important for future designs of microresonator arrays intended for signal processing, communication, and sensor applications.     

Deployment/retrieval optimization for flexible tethered satellite systems

A methodology for deployment/retrieval optimization of tethered satellite systems is presented. Previous research has focused on the case where the tether is modeled as an inelastic, straight rod for the determination of optimal system trajectories. However, the tether shape and string vibrations can often be very important, particularly when the deployment/retrieval speed changes rapidly, or when external forces such as aerodynamic drag or electrodynamic forces are present. An efficient mathematical model for flexible tethered systems is first derived, which treats the tether as composed of a system of lumped masses connected via inelastic links. A tension control law is presented based on a discretization of the tether length dynamics via Chebyshev polynomials. A scheme that minimizes the second derivative of length over the trajectory based on physically meaningful coefficients is presented. This is utilized in conjunction with evolutionary optimization methods to minimize the rigid body and flexible modes of the system during deployment/retrieval. It is shown that only a very small number of parameters are required to generate accurate trajectories. The results are compared to the case where the tether is modeled as a straight rod.     

Wave propagation and vibration of elastic rods with interfacial frictional slip

Wave propagation and vibration of elastic rods interacting with their environment according to the Coulomb dry friction law, are studied. Exact solutions of the nonlinear problems of impact of semi-infinite or finite rods, with constant stress and velocity or by a rigid body are obtained. Problems of smooth loading and unloading of a semi-infinite rod are solved as well.

A method of exact analytical solution of problems of vibration for steplike loading is developed. The cases of suddenly applied stress which is maintained constant afterwards or changes sign steplike with the period of free vibration, are studied. Continuously distributed and localized friction are considered. It is shown that extension of a zone of disturbances and dissipation in a system with friction, stricly depends on the history of loading.     

高频纵向导波在钢杆中传播特性的研究

计算了钢杆中纵向轴对称导波模态的衰减频散曲线和群 速度频散曲线. 分析了1~3MHz范围内高频纵向轴对称超声导波在钢杆中的传播特 性. 理论分析表明，各高阶纵向模态都存在一个衰减最小值，在此衰减最小值所对应频率下 的高阶模态能传播较远距离，可用于钢杆导波检测. 建立实验系统，采用轴对称同端激 励接收的方法，根据第1次端面回波做出群速度和端面回波幅值随频率变化曲线，实验结 果与理论分析基本吻合. 表明考虑材料衰减特性的钢杆频散曲线可以作为实验指导依据.     

Torsional,flexural, and torsional-flexural buckling modes of a cylindrical shell under combined loading

Stability problems for cylindrical shells under various loading modes were considered in numerous papers. A detailed analysis of such problems can be found, e.g., in the monograph [1]. We refer to the solutions presented in this monograph as classical.For long cylindrical shells in axial compression, one of the buckling modes is the purely beam flexural mode similar to the classical buckling mode of a straight rod. It is well known that it can be studied by using the nonlinear or linearized equations of the membrane theory of shells. In [2], it was shown that, on the basis of such equations constructed starting from the noncontradictory version of geometrically nonlinear elasticity relations in the quadratic approximation [3], under the separate action of the axial compression, external pressure, and torsion, there are also previously unknown nonclassical buckling modes, most of which are shear ones.In the present paper, we show that the use of the above equations for cylindrical shells under compression and external pressure with simultaneous pure torsion or bending permits revealing the earlier unknown torsional, beam flexural, and beam torsional-flexural buckling modes, which are nonclassical, just as those found in [2]. The second of these buckling modes is realized when axially compressing forces are formed in the shell with simultaneous torsion, and the third of them is realized under compression combined with pure bending.It was found that, earlier than the classical buckling modes, the torsional buckling modes can be realized for relatively short shells with small shear rigidity in the tangent plane, while the second and third buckling modes can be realized for relatively long shells.     

Free vibrations of a thin elastica by normal modes

In this work we investigate the existence, stability and bifurcation of periodic motions in an unforced conservative two degree of freedom system. The system models the nonlinear vibrations of an elastic rod which can undergo both torsional and bending modes. Using a variety of perturbation techniques in conjunction with the computer algebra system MACSYMA, we obtain approximate expressions for a diversity of periodic motions, including nonlinear normal modes, elliptic orbits and non-local modes. The latter motions, which involve both bending and torsional motions in a 2:1 ratio, correspond to behavior previously observed in experiments by Cusumano.     

非圆截面弹性细杆的平衡稳定性与分岔

本文研究存在初始曲率或挠率的非圆截面弹性细杆的平衡及稳定性问题,在两端受力矩单儿作用的条件下,杆的平衡微分方程可转换为用欧拉角表述的一阶自治系统,并有可能利用相平面的奇点理论分析弹性细杆平衡状态的稳定性,文中对杆截面的对称性,以及杆的初始曲率和挠率对平衡状态性的影响进行了定性分析,导出了解析形式的稳定性判据,揭示了杆平衡状态的列态分岔现象。     

Nonlinear normal modes in homogeneous system with time delays

Periodic synchronous regimes of motion are investigated in symmetric homogeneous system of coupled essentially nonlinear oscillators with time delays. Such regimes are similar to nonlinear normal modes (NNMs), known for corresponding conservative system without delays, and can be found analytically. Unlikely the conservative counterpart, the system possesses “oval” modes with constant phase shift between the oscillators, in addition to symmetric/antisymmetric and localized regimes of motion. Numeric simulation demonstrates that the “oval” modes may be attractors of the phase flow. These attractors are particular case of phase-locked solutions, rather ubiquitous in the system under investigation.     

Convective Instability in a Horizontal Porous Channel with Permeable and Conducting Side Boundaries

The stability analysis of the motionless state of a horizontal porous channel with rectangular cross-section and saturated by a fluid is developed. The heating from below is modelled by a uniform flux, while the top wall is assumed to be isothermal. The side boundaries are considered as permeable and perfectly conducting. The linear stability of the basic state is studied for the normal mode perturbations. The principle of exchange of stabilities is proved, so that only stationary normal modes need to be considered in the stability analysis. The eigenvalue problem for the neutral stability condition is solved analytically, and a closed-form dispersion relation is obtained for the neutral stability. The Darcy–Rayleigh number is expressed as an implicit function of the longitudinal wave number and of the aspect ratio. The critical wave number and the critical Darcy–Rayleigh number are evaluated for different aspect ratios. The preferred modes under critical conditions are detected. It is found that the selected patterns of instability at the critical Rayleigh number are two-dimensional, for slender or square cross-sections of the channel. On the other hand, instability is three dimensional when the critical width-to-height ratio, 1.350517, is exceeded. Eventually, the effects of a finite longitudinal length of the channel are discussed.     

Effect of the Boundary Conditions and Influence of the Rotational Inertia on the Vibrational Modes of an Elastic Ring

We present the small-amplitude vibrations of a circular elastic ring with periodic and clamped boundary conditions. We model the rod as an inextensible, isotropic, naturally straight Kirchhoff elastic rod and obtain the vibrational modes of the ring analytically for periodic boundary conditions and numerically for clamped boundary conditions. Of particular interest are the dependence of the vibrational modes on the torsional stress in the ring and the influence of the rotational inertia of the rod on the mode frequencies and amplitudes. In rescaling the Kirchhoff equations, we introduce a parameter inversely proportional to the aspect ratio of the rod. This parameter makes it possible to capture the influence of the rotational inertia of the rod. We find that the rotational inertia has a minor influence on the vibrational modes with the exception of a specific category of modes corresponding to high-frequency twisting deformations in the ring. Moreover, some of the vibrational modes over or undertwist the elastic rod depending on the imposed torsional stress in the ring.     

Broadband energy exchanges between a dissipative elastic rod and a multi-degree-of-freedom dissipative essentially non-linear attachment

We analyze complex, multi-frequency, non-linear modal interactions in the damped dynamics of a viscously damped dispersive finite rod coupled to a multi-degree-of-freedom essentially non-linear attachment. We perform a parametric study to show that the attachment can be an effective broadband energy absorber and dissipater of shock energy from the rod. It is shown that strong targeted energy transfer from the rod to the attachment occurs when there is strong stiffness asymmetry in the attachment. For weak viscous dissipation, a clear understanding of dynamical transitions in the integrated rod-non-linear attachment system can be gained by wavelet transforming the time series and superimposing the resulting wavelet spectra in the frequency-energy plot (FEP) of the periodic orbits of the underlying Hamiltonian system. Two distinct NES configurations are analyzed in detail, and their damped responses are analyzed by the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT). We show that the HHT is capable of analyzing even complex non-linear damped transitions, by providing the dominant frequency components (or equivalently, time scales) at which the non-linear phenomena take place, and clarifying the series of non-linear resonance captures between the rod and attachment dynamics that are responsible for the broadband energy exchanges in this system.     

Bi-linear reduced-order models of structures with friction intermittent contacts

The dynamic analysis of structures with localized nonlinearities, such as intermittent contacts of cracked structures, is a computationally demanding task because of the large size of the models involved. Thus, high-resolution finite element models are often reduced using a variety of specialized techniques which exploit spatial coherences in the dynamics. In addition, when a steady-state forced response analysis is performed, direct time integration can be replaced with multi-harmonic balance methods. Recently, a technique based on bi-linear normal modes has been successfully applied to piecewise-linear oscillators. The key idea of that approach is to represent the spatial coherences in the system dynamics with two sets of normal modes with special boundary conditions, referred to as bi-linear modes. In this paper, the bi-linear modal representation is extended to the case of intermittent contacts with friction. Furthermore, a novel reduced order modeling method is developed for the 0th order harmonic used in multi-harmonic balance methods. The forced response of a cracked structure is used to demonstrate the proposed methods.     

Synge's concept of stability applied to non-linear normal modes

Synge's concept [J.L. Synge, On the geometry of dynamics, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 226 (1926) 33-106] of stability is introduced and shown to be equivalent to the orbital stability in holonomic conservative systems of two-degrees-of-freedom. This furnishes an analytical tool to study the orbital stability in strongly non-linear systems. This concept is shown to be applicable to the stability analysis of non-linear normal modes, for which Liapunov's first method generally fails. Integrally related numbers are found such that, if the ratio of linear natural frequencies is close to one of the numbers, then a normal mode may lose stability at a small amplitude. These numbers depend on the symmetry or asymmetry of system with respect to the origin of the configuration space. Some examples are given to demonstrate the stability analysis of the normal modes and to verify the integrally related numbers.     

One-dimensional equations for coupled extensional,radial, and axial-shear motions of circular piezoelectric ceramic rods with axial poling

A system of approximate, one-dimensional partial differential equations with one spatial coordinate and time as independent variables is derived for axisymmetric motions of a piezoelectric ceramic rod of circular cross section. The equations take into account the couplings among extensional, radial and axial-shear modes. The dispersion curves for the three waves in an infinite rod are compared with analogous solutions of the three-dimensional equations. The equations obtained are useful in the modeling of ceramic rod piezoelectric transducers that are not very long and thin.     

On static and dynamic buckling modes of a rod-strip loaded by follower forces

In [1], it was shown that, under the action of compressing transverse forces of constant (in the deformation process) direction on the rod-strip, there are two statically possible buckling modes (for the adjacent neutral equilibrium), one of which is purely shear and the second is purely flexural and is realized without transverse strains.In the present paper, we consider problems about static and dynamic buckling modes of a rod-strip under the separate action of longitudinal and transverse compressing and also shear forces, which belong to the class of follower forces of two types. The first type corresponds to the conservation of directions of the above forces along the basis vectors of the strained state; the second, to the conservation of one of the components of the surface forces acting along the normal to the deformed boundary surface. We show that if the transverse compressing forces are follower forces, i.e., if in the deformation process they remain normal to the surfaces to which they are applied, then the flexural buckling mode realized in the rod can be found only by the dynamic method [2] based on the use of the refined shear Timoshenko-type model for rods.