Calculating response spectral moments by complex modal analysis

Response spectral moments are useful for system reliability analysis. Usually, spectral moments are calculated by the frequency domain method. Based on the time domain modal analysis of random vibrations, the authors present a new method for calculating response spectral moments through response correlation functions. The method can be applied to both classical and non-classical damping cases and to three kinds of random excitations, i.e., white noise, band-limited white noise, and filtered white noise. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

基于胡聿贤谱的带支撑广义Maxwell阻尼隔震结构随机响应分析

工程中通过设置支撑将阻尼器和建筑结构连接, 但常为了简化分析, 将支撑的水平刚度看成无穷大, 即不考虑支撑对耗能结构随机地震响应的影响. 实际上, 考虑有限水平刚度的支撑对耗能结构响应的影响更加符合工程实际, 为考虑支撑影响的广义Maxwell耗能隔震结构在胡聿贤谱地震激励下的响应分析, 提出一种求解随机地震响应的简明解析解法. 将带支撑广义Maxwell阻尼器等效本构关系、隔震结构运动方程以及胡聿贤谱滤波方程联合组成非经典阻尼系统, 运用复模态法对该非经典阻尼系统解耦, 通过不同响应模态获得耗能隔震系统系列响应基于白噪声激励的Duhamel积分表达式; 利用Dirac函数的性质, 将系统系列响应协方差简化为无积分运算的表达式, 根据功率谱密度函数与其协方差函数的Wiener-Khinchin关系, 得到耗能隔震系统系列响应功率谱和地面加速度功率谱, 基于随机振动理论中谱矩的定义, 得到耗能隔震系统系列响应0 ~ 2阶谱矩. 算例通过与虚拟激励法对比分析, 验证所提方法在该耗能隔震系统分析的正确性和高效性, 并讨论了不同支撑刚度对阻尼器减震效果的影响.      

双稳杜芬振子的随机共振及其动力学机制

把矩方法应用于高斯白噪声和弱周期信号驱动的双稳杜芬振子,发现矩方法的收敛快慢与阻尼系数的大小有关,即在固定非线性参数的前提下,阻尼系数越大,收敛速度越快。在阻尼系数较大的情形,对于不同频率的弱周期输入信号,系统输出功率谱增益因子的演化防噪声强度呈单峰或双峰结构,亦即对于不同的激励频率,系统可表现出单峰或者重峰随机共振结构。为了解释这些共振结构,通过考察由波动谱密度定义的非零频率峰对噪声强度依赖性,发现重峰随机共振的发生在于噪声一方面抑制了井内运动,另一方面诱发了势垒上振动。研究结果为已有结论的修正,在统计力学等方面具有显著意义。     

Energy harvesting of monostable Duffing oscillator under Gaussian white noise excitation

Energy harvesting of monostable Duffing oscillator with piezoelectric coupling under Gaussian white noise excitation is investigated. Based on the Fokker–Plank–Kolmogorov equation of piezoelectric coupling systems, the statistical moments of the response are derived from the Van Kampen expansion. The effects of the spectral density of the random excitation and the coefficient of cubic nonlinearity on the expected response moments are analyzed. Some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effects of excitation spectral density, coefficient of cubic nonlinearity and initial conditions on the output voltage.     

设置连接阻尼器的相邻结构随机地震动响应的简明封闭解

针对两相邻结构间设置连接阻尼器对结构的减震影响问题,研究了基于Kanai-Tajimi谱地震动激励下的Kelvin型粘弹性阻尼器与相邻结构形成的组合体系的随机地震动系列响应(绝对位移及层间位移)的简明封闭解。首先,利用Kelvin型粘弹性阻尼器本构关系及Kanai-Tajimi谱的滤波方程,将组合体系基于复杂地震动激励精确转化为基于简明白噪声激励的运动方程;其次,利用复模态法获得了组合结构相对于地面的绝对位移、层间位移等系列响应方差及0阶~2阶谱矩的统一简明封闭解。最后,通过算例及与虚拟激励法进行对比,证明本文方法的正确性和简明性;通过与未设置阻尼装置结构体系的动力响应对比,说明了阻尼装置对相邻结构具有良好的减震效果,但局部楼层的层间位移及层间剪力会有所增加。     

Cross-correlation and cross-power spectral density representation by complex spectral moments

A new approach to provide a complete characterization of normal multivariate stochastic vector processes is presented in this paper. Such proposed method is based on the evaluation of the complex spectral moments of the processes. These quantities are strictly related to the Mellin transform and they are the generalization of the integer-order spectral moments introduced by Vanmarcke.The knowledge of the complex spectral moments permits to obtain the power spectral densities and their cross counterpart by a complex series expansions. Moreover, with just the aid of some mathematical properties the complex fractional moments permit to obtain also the correlation and cross-correlation functions, providing a complete characterization of the multivariate stochastic vector processes.Some numerical applications are reported in order to show the capabilities of this method. In particular, the examples regard two dimensional linear oscillators forced by Gaussian white noise, the characterization of the wind velocity field, and the stochastic response analysis of vibro-impact system under Gaussian white noise.     

Studies on structural safety in stochastically excited Duffing oscillator with double potential wells

The effects of the Gaussian white noise excitation on structural safety due to erosion of safe basin in Duffing oscillator with double potential wells are studied in the present paper. By employing the well-developed stochastic Melnikov condition and Monte–Carlo method, various eroded basins are simulated in deterministic and stochastic cases of the system, and the ratio of safe initial points (RSIP) is presented in some given limited domain defined by the system’s Hamiltonian for various parameters or first-passage times. It is shown that structural safety control becomes more difficult when the noise excitation is imposed on the system, and the fractal basin boundary may also appear when the system is excited by Gaussian white noise only. From the RSIP results in given limited domain, sudden discontinuous descents in RSIP curves may occur when the system is excited by harmonic or stochastic forces, which are different from the customary continuous ones in view of the first-passage problems. In addition, it is interesting to find that RSIP values can even increase with increasing driving amplitude of the external harmonic excitation when the Gaussian white noise is also present in the system. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10302025 and 10672140). The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

Nonstationary probability densities of system response of strongly nonlinear single-degree-of-freedom system subject to modulated white noise excitation

The nonstationary probability densities of system response of a single-degree-of -freedom system with lightly nonlinear damping and strongly nonlinear stiffness subject to modulated white noise excitation are studied.Using the stochastic averaging method based on the generalized harmonic functions,the averaged Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation governing the nonstationary probability density of the amplitude is derived. The solution of the equation is approximated by the series expansion in terms of a set...     

Stochastic Analysis of Self-Induced Vibrations

Vortex-induced vibrations of a structural element are modelled as a non-linear stochastic single-degree-of-freedom system. The deterministic part of the governing equation represents laminar flow conditions with a stationary non-zero solution corresponding to lock-in. Across-wind turbulence is included as an additive excitation and along-wind turbulence is introduced as a parametric excitation term, both assumed to be white noise processes. An approximate closed-form solution to the corresponding Fokker–Planck equation in terms of the stationary probability density of the energy is obtained. The auto spectral density of the position at a particular energy-level is approximated by the spectral density of a linear system with energy dependent damping. The spectral density is then obtained by integration of the energy conditional spectral density over all energies weighted by the probability density. The approximate theoretical expressions for the probability density of the energy and the auto spectral density of the position compare favourably with results obtained by numerical simulation.     

Damping Identification Using Perturbation Techniques and Higher-Order Spectra

Perturbation techniques and spectral moments are combined tocharacterize and quantify the damping and nonlinear parameters of thefirst mode of a three-beam two-mass frame. The frame is excitedharmonically near twice its lowest natural frequency. The response ismodeled with a second-order nonlinear equation with quadratic and cubicterms and linear and quadratic damping terms. The method of multiplescales is used to obtain a second-order approximate solution for thismodel. Bispectral analysis is used to quantify the level of couplingbetween modes and measure their phase difference. The amplitudes andphase difference between the excitation and response mode with differentfrequencies are substituted into the approximate solution to determinethe damping and nonlinear parameters.