Stability of a two-mass oscillator moving on a beam supported by a visco-elastic half-space

This paper presents a theoretical study of the stability of a two-mass oscillator that moves along a beam on a visco-elastic half-space. The oscillator and the beam on the half-space are employed to model a bogie of a train and a railway track, respectively. Using Laplace and Fourier integral transforms, expressions for the dynamic stiffness of the beam are derived in the point of contact with the oscillator. It is shown that the imaginary part of this stiffness can be negative thereby corresponding to so-called negative damping. This damping can destabilize the oscillator leading to the exponential growth of the oscillator's displacement. The instability zone corresponding to such behavior is found in the space of the system's parameters with the help of the D-decomposition method. A parametric study of this zone is carried out with the emphasis on the effect of the material damping in the half-space and the viscous damping in the oscillator. It is shown that a proper combination of these damping mechanisms stabilizes the system effectively. An attempt is made to construct a one-dimensional foundation of the beam so that the instability zone predicted by the resulting one-dimensional model would coincide with that obtained from the original three-dimensional model. It is shown that such foundation can be constructed but its parameters are ambiguous and cannot be determined a-priori, without tuning the instability zone. Therefore, it is concluded that one-dimensional models should not be used for the stability analysis of high-speed trains.     

The mechanism of stiffness increase phenomenon of a rubbing disk

The phase characteristic of a disk rubbing with a ring supported elastically is investigated and used to explain the mechanism of stiffness increase phenomenon. As long as the rubbing is maintained, the averaged phase difference between the disk and the rotating mass on the disk is defi- nitely less than π/2. When the rubbing finishes, the phase difference quickly approaches to 7r. This behavior is inde- pendent of the physics parameters of the rubbing system. The theoretical results are qualitatively verified with experiments.     

考虑人体耦合作用的结构竖向隔振研究

结构在环境振动或地震作用下的竖向振动不容忽略,有必要采取竖向隔振装置进行减振控制。考虑人体与结构耦合作用后不仅使隔振动力模型更加真实,还可以直接获得人体的动力响应。采用碟形弹簧支座对结构进行基础竖向隔振,并根据国际标准ISO5982规定的不同姿势下的人体动力模型,建立了考虑具有非经典阻尼的人与隔振结构耦合运动方程,利用复模态分析实现了方程的解耦,通过算例分析了竖向隔振以及人体作用对结构响应的影响。结果表明:对于一般的质量和刚度分布均匀的结构,人体对结构具有微弱的减振作用。碟形弹簧支座可以显著地降低结构的竖向振动并改善居住舒适度。     

The effect of blade vibration on the nonlinear characteristics of rotor–bearing system supported by nonlinear suspension

In this paper, the complicated nonlinear dynamics of the harmonically forced quasi-zero-stiffness SD (smooth and discontinuous) oscillator is investigated via direct numerical simulations. This oscillator considered that the gravity is composed of a lumped mass connected with a vertical spring of positive stiffness and a pair of horizontally compressed springs providing negative stiffness, which can achieve the quasi-zero stiffness widely used in vibration isolation. The local and global bifurcation analyses are implemented to reveal the complex dynamic phenomena of this system. The double-parameter bifurcation diagrams are constructed to demonstrate the overall topological structures for the distribution of various responses in parameter spaces. Using the Floquet theory and parameter continuation method, the local bifurcation patterns of periodic solutions are obtained. Moreover, the global bifurcation mechanisms for the crises of chaos and metamorphoses of basin boundaries are examined by analysing the attractors and attraction basins, exploring the evolutions of invariant manifolds and constructing the basin cells. Meanwhile, additional nonlinear dynamic phenomena and characteristics closely related to the bifurcations are discussed including the resonant tongues, jump phenomena, amplitude–frequency responses, chaotic seas, transient chaos, chaotic saddles, and also their generation mechanisms are presented.     

Creation–annihilation process of limit cycles in the Rayleigh–Duffing oscillator

The present paper examines the creation?Cannihilation process of limit cycles in the Rayleigh?CDuffing oscillator with negative linear damping and negative linear stiffness. It is obtained by the perturbation method, in which the number of limit cycles in the Rayleigh?CDuffing oscillator varies with the linear damping and stiffness. Numerical simulations are performed in order to confirm the analytically obtained creation?Cannihilation process of limit cycles. Moreover, we compare the process of limit cycles in the Rayleigh?CDuffing oscillator to that of limit cycles in the van der Pol?CDuffing oscillator. The difference in these oscillator is only in nonlinear forces, which causes a qualitative difference in the creation?Cannihilation processes.     

Static and dynamic behavior of disk bearings for OSPG railway bridges under railway vehicle loading

The aim of the present study is to investigate the static and dynamic behavior of disk bearings under railway vehicle loadings. A disk bearing is operated as an elastic bearing in the vertical direction and is composed of a Polyether Urethane (Polyurethane) disk for elastic support and Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) to accommodate lateral movements. Static tests are conducted in a laboratory to determine the static behavior of a Polyurethane disk. Finite Element (FE) analysis is also performed to assess the friction and the role of the pin inside a disk bearing. For dynamic behavior, four disk bearings having the identical Polyurethane disk, which are used in the static tests, are installed in a real railway bridge and tested under a running locomotive. From the test results, the static and dynamic stiffness of disk bearings are estimated and compared with each other. The estimated static stiffness of the disk bearing is almost half of that under dynamic loading. In addition, under relatively light loads the dynamic stiffness of a fixed disk bearing is approximately 80% greater than that of an expansion disk bearing since the PTFE deflects and the gap is closed in the expansion bearing. Deformation of the disk bearings in the real bridge is measured with varying locomotive speeds. The deformation of the disk bearings does not vary significantly with changes in the locomotive’s speed.     

Finite amplitude oscillations of a simple rubber support system

Exact solution of the nonlinear problem of undamped, finite amplitude, free vertical oscillations of a mass supported by a rubber spring made of a neo-Hookean material is presented for both suspension and compression supports. The motion in the special case of free fall of the mass from rest at the unstretched state is characterized in terms of elliptic integrals, and it is shown that the periodic time may be expressed universally in terms of the tabulated Heuman lambda-function. The finite amplitude, free vibrational frequency and the dynamic deflection of a neo-Hookean oscillator are compared with those for a linear spring oscillator having the same constant stiffness; and both upper and lower bounds on the ratio of these frequencies are presented. Numerical values for several cases are illustrated, and the physical results are described graphically. General solutions for the free vibrations with arbitrary initial data are obtained in terms of certain generalized lambda and beta-functions, and some transformation identities relating these functions are derived.     

高斯色噪声和谐波激励共同作用下耦合SD振子的混沌研究

耦合SD振子作为一种典型的负刚度振子, 在工程设计中有广泛应用. 同时高斯色噪声广泛存在于外界环境中, 并可能诱发系统产生复杂的非线性动力学行为, 因此其随机动力学是非线性动力学研究的热点和难点问题. 本文研究了高斯色噪声和谐波激励共同作用下双稳态耦合SD振子的混沌动力学, 由于耦合SD振子的刚度项为超越函数形式, 无法直接给出系统同宿轨道的解析表达式, 给混沌阈值的分析造成了很大的困难. 为此, 本文首先采用分段线性近似拟合该振子的刚度项, 发展了高斯色噪声和谐波激励共同作用下的非光滑系统的随机梅尔尼科夫方法. 其次, 基于随机梅尔尼科夫过程, 利用均方准则和相流函数理论分别得到了弱噪声和强噪声情况下该振子混沌阈值的解析表达式, 讨论了噪声强度对混沌动力学的影响. 研究结果表明, 随着噪声强度的增大混沌区域增大, 即增大噪声强度更容易诱发耦合SD振子产生混沌. 当阻尼一定时, 弱噪声情况下混沌阈值随噪声强度的增加而减小; 但是强噪声情况下噪声强度对混沌阈值的影响正好相反. 最后, 数值结果表明, 利用文中的方法研究高斯色噪声和谐波激励共同作用下耦合SD振子的混沌是有效的.本文的结果为随机非光滑系统的混沌动力学研究提供了一定的理论指导.      

A model identification method of vibrating structures from incomplete modal information

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A MODEL IDENTIFICATION METHOD OF VIBRATING STRUCTURES FROM INCOMPLETE MODAL INFORMATION

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Dynamics of a mass–spring–pendulum system with vastly different frequencies

We investigate the dynamics of a simple pendulum coupled to a horizontal mass?Cspring system. The spring is assumed to have a very large stiffness value such that the natural frequency of the mass?Cspring oscillator, when uncoupled from the pendulum, is an order of magnitude larger than that of the oscillations of the pendulum. The leading order dynamics of the autonomous coupled system is studied using the method of Direct Partition of Motion (DPM), in conjunction with a rescaling of fast time in a manner that is inspired by the WKB method. We particularly study the motions in which the amplitude of the motion of the harmonic oscillator is an order of magnitude smaller than that of the pendulum. In this regime, a pitchfork bifurcation of periodic orbits is found to occur for energy values larger that a critical value. The bifurcation gives rise to nonlocal periodic and quasi-periodic orbits in which the pendulum oscillates about an angle between zero and ??/2 from the down right position. The bifurcating periodic orbits are nonlinear normal modes of the coupled system and correspond to fixed points of a Poincare map. An approximate expression for the value of the new fixed points of the map is obtained. These formal analytic results are confirmed by comparison with numerical integration.     

Attractors of harmonically forced linear oscillator with attached nonlinear energy sink. II: Optimization of a nonlinear vibration absorber

This paper is the second one in the series of two papers devoted to detailed investigation of the response regimes of a linear oscillator with attached nonlinear energy sink (NES) under harmonic external forcing and assessment of possible application of the NES for vibration absorption and mitigation. In this paper, we study the performance of a strongly nonlinear, damped vibration absorber with relatively small mass attached to a periodically excited linear oscillator. We present a nonlinear absorber tuning procedure in the vicinity of (1:1) resonance which provides the best total system energy suppression, using analytical and numerical tools. A linear absorber is also tuned according to the same criterion of total system energy suppression as the nonlinear one. Both optimally tuned absorbers are compared under common parameters of damping, external forcing but different absorber stiffness characteristics; certain cases for which nonlinear absorber is preferable over the linear one are revealed and confirmed numerically.     

Vibration reduction evaluation of a linear system with a nonlinear energy sink under a harmonic and random excitation

The nonlinear behaviors and vibration reduction of a linear system with a nonlinear energy sink(NES) are investigated. The linear system is excited by a harmonic and random base excitation, consisting of a mass block, a linear spring, and a linear viscous damper. The NES is composed of a mass block, a linear viscous damper, and a spring with ideal cubic nonlinear stiffness. Based on the generalized harmonic function method,the steady-state Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation is presented to reveal...     

跳跃振子平衡及其分岔的能量分析

用能量方法研究了跳跃振子的平衡与分岔.用势能驻值条件确定了平衡位置所满足的方程,通过势能极值判断平衡的稳定性.在不同的弹簧构型下,数值计算了平衡随系统弹性刚度和质量比变化的分岔图.结果表明,弹性刚度和质量比较小时,系统只有一个稳定平衡点和一个不稳定平衡点;刚度和质量比充分大时,系统分岔出一个新的稳定平衡点和一个新的不稳定平衡点.     

计算具有区间参数结构的固有频率的优化方法

基于区间函数的单向包含性质，把具有区间非确定参数结构的固有频率所在区间范围问题 转化成两个全局优化问题，并采用一种实数编码遗传算法求取问题的全局解. 用一种能够求 得剪切型结构和弹簧质量系统特征值范围精确解的单调分析方法进行检验. 在一 些文献中，直接采用区间数运算法则和有限元法得到结构区间刚度阵和区间质量阵，并把关 于该区间刚度阵和区间质量阵的广义区间特征值问题的特征值区间作为待求的非确定性结构 的特征值所在的区间范围，该方法易于扩大问题的解域. 算例表明，可望得到结构 固有频率区间范围的准确解.     

Three-dimensional static and dynamic stiffness analyses of the cable driven parallel robot with non-negligible cable mass and elasticity

This study investigates the three-dimensional static and dynamic stiffness analyses of the cable driven parallel robot by considering cable mass, elasticity, and mass of end-effector. According to these models, optimization of cable tensions and cable lengths using fminimax solver is performed to determine the static stiffness. Static and dynamic stiffness of the cables are obtained with simulations. Results show that analyses in three-dimension are very important to measure the actual performance of the cable driven parallel robot. This demonstrates potential for general applicability and motion of the cable driven parallel robot.     

分数阶Duffng振子的超谐共振

研究了含分数阶微分项的Duffing振子的超谐共振,通过平均法得到了系统的一阶近似解. 提出了超谐共振时等效线性 阻尼和等效线性刚度的概念,分析了分数阶微分项的系数和阶次对等效线性阻尼和等效线性刚度的影响. 建立了超谐共振解的幅频曲线的解析表达式和稳定性判断准则,对分数阶Duffing振子与传统整数阶Duffing振子的超谐共振解进行了比较. 最后通过数值仿真研究了分数阶微分项的参数对超谐共振幅频曲线的影响.