Periodic and quasiperiodic galloping of a wind-excited tower under external excitation

The galloping of tall structures excited by steady and unsteady wind may be periodic or quasiperiodic (QP) with amplitudes having the same order of magnitude. While the onset of periodic and QP galloping was studied, their control on the other hand has received less attention. In this paper, we conduct analytical study on the effect of a fast harmonic excitation on the onset of periodic and QP galloping in the presence of steady and unsteady wind. We consider the cases where the unsteady wind activates either external excitation, parametric one or both. A perturbation analysis is performed to obtain close expressions of QP solution and the corresponding modulation envelopes. We show that at various loading situations, the periodic and QP galloping onset is significantly influenced by the amplitude of the fast external excitation. In the case where the unsteady wind activates parametric excitation, the QP galloping occurs with higher frequency modulation compared to the case where the unsteady wind activates external excitation. In the case where external and parametric excitations are activated simultaneously, fast harmonic excitation eliminates bistability in the amplitude response and gives rise to a new small QP modulation envelope.     

On statistical quasi-linearization

In carrying out the statistical linearization procedure to a non-linear system subjected to an external random excitation, a Gaussian probability distribution is assumed for the system response. If the random excitation is non-Gaussian, however, the procedure may lead to a large error since the response of bother the original non-linear system and the replacement linear system are not Gaussian distributed. It is found that in some cases such a system can be transformed to one under parametric excitations of Gaussian white noises. Then the quasi-linearization procedure, proposed originally for non-linear systems under both external and parametric excitations of Gaussian white noises, can be applied to these cases. In the procedure, exact statistical moments of the replacing quasi-linear system are used to calculate the linearization parameters. Since the assumption of a Gaussian probability distribution is avoided, the accuracy of the approximation method is improved. The approach is applied to non-linear systems under two types of non-Gaussian excitations: randomized sinusoidal process and polynomials of a filtered process. Numerical examples are investigated, and the calculated results show that the proposed method has higher accuracy than the conventional linearization, as compared with the results obtained from Monte Carlo simulations.     

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of cantilevered piezoelectric energy harvesters under simultaneous parametric and external excitations

The nonlinear dynamics of cantilevered piezoelectric beams is investigated under simultaneous parametric and external excitations. The beam is composed of a substrate and two piezoelectric layers and assumed as an Euler–Bernoulli model with inextensible deformation. A nonlinear distributed parameter model of cantilevered piezoelectric energy harvesters is proposed using the generalized Hamilton's principle. The proposed model includes geometric and inertia nonlinearity, but neglects the material nonlinearity. Using the Galerkin decomposition method and harmonic balance method, analytical expressions of the frequency–response curves are presented when the first bending mode of the beam plays a dominant role. Using these expressions, we investigate the effects of the damping, load resistance, electromechanical coupling, and excitation amplitude on the frequency–response curves. We also study the difference between the nonlinear lumped-parameter and distributedparameter model for predicting the performance of the energy harvesting system. Only in the case of parametric excitation, we demonstrate that the energy harvesting system has an initiation excitation threshold below which no energy can be harvested.We also illustrate that the damping and load resistance affect the initiation excitation threshold.     

Noise-Induced Chaos in Duffing Oscillator with Double Wells

Stochastic Melnikov method is employed to predict noise-induced chaotic response in the Duffing oscillator with double wells. The safe basin is simulated to show the noise-induced fractal boundary. Three cases are considered: harmonic excitation, both harmonic and Gaussian white noise excitations, and Gaussian white noise excitation. The leading Lyapunov exponent estimated by Rosenstein's algorithm is shown to quantify the chaotic nature of the sample time series of the system. The results show that the boundary of the safe basin can be fractal even if the system is excited only by external Gaussian white noise.     

Response and stability of strongly non-linear oscillators under wide-band random excitation

A new stochastic averaging procedure for single-degree-of-freedom strongly non-linear oscillators with lightly linear and (or) non-linear dampings subject to weakly external and (or) parametric excitations of wide-band random processes is developed by using the so-called generalized harmonic functions. The procedure is applied to predict the response of Duffing–van der Pol oscillator under both external and parametric excitations of wide-band stationary random processes. The analytical stationary probability density is verified by digital simulation and the factors affecting the accuracy of the procedure are analyzed. The proposed procedure is also applied to study the asymptotic stability in probability and stochastic Hopf bifurcation of Duffing–van der Pol oscillator under parametric excitations of wide-band stationary random processes in both stiffness and damping terms. The stability conditions and bifurcation parameter are simply determined by examining the asymptotic behaviors of averaged square-root of total energy and averaged total energy, respectively, at its boundaries. It is shown that the stability analysis using linearized equation is correct only if the linear stiffness term does not vanish.     

Stability analysis of a nonlinear rotating asymmetrical shaft near the resonances

An asymmetrical rotating shaft with unequal mass moments of inertia and flexural rigidities in the direction of principal axes is considered. In this system, there are two excitation sources, including a harmonic excitation due to the dynamic imbalances and a parametric excitation due to shaft asymmetry. Nonlinearities are due to the in-extensionality of the shaft and large amplitude. In this study, harmonic and parametric resonances due to the mentioned effects are considered. The influences of inequality of mass moments of inertia and flexural rigidities in the direction of principal axes, inequality between two eccentricities corresponding to the principal axes and external damping on the stability and bifurcation of steady state response of the rotating asymmetrical shaft are investigated. In addition, the characteristic of stable stationary points and loci of bifurcation points as function of damping coefficient are determined. In order to analyze the resonances of the system the multiple scales method is applied to the complex form of partial differential equations of motion. The achieved results show a good agreement with those of numerical computation.     

参数激励下静电驱动微机电系统动力特性研究

充分考虑压膜阻尼效应的影响,提出参数激励下时变电容式静电驱动微机电系统的动力学模型,采用谐波平衡法分析在参数激励和强迫激励耦合作用下系统的幅频响应特性,探讨不同控制电压和频率比对系统幅频响应的影响,分别以交流电压幅值、频率比和压膜阻尼比为控制参数研究系统的非线性动力特性,结果表明,微尺度下静电驱动微机电系统在参数激励作用下存在较为丰富的分岔与混沌行为,压膜阻尼效应对系统动力特性的影响不可忽视.      

Analytical parametric study of bi-linear hysteretic model of dry friction under harmonic,impulse and random excitations

Hysteretic behavior due to some nonlinear sources is a common phenomenon in many dynamical systems. One of the sources of this behavior in mechanical systems is dry friction. Dry friction in bolted or riveted joints of mechanical structures makes their dynamic behavior hysteretic. Bi-linear hysteresis is one of the models that can be used to study these systems which is used in this paper. A SDOF system containing a bi-linear hysteretic element called Jenkins element under harmonic, impulse and random excitations is considered. For all three types of excitations, the effects of system and excitation parameters on the defined equivalent system parameters and the response specifications are studied. Harmonic balance method is employed for harmonic excitation studies, and optimum friction threshold for minimizing response amplitude is obtained versus other system parameters and response amplitude. Energy balance method is used for impulse excitation through which the desired decaying ratio can be achieved by tuning the friction threshold, depending on stiffness ratio. System under random excitation is investigated by equivalent linearization technique in two steps. At the first step, equivalent properties are obtained versus instantaneous amplitude of response. In this step, the paper contains the parametric study of system in which the variations of equivalent parameters are described when physical parameters of system or input intensity vary. Overall variance of system response is determined in the second step, and optimum sliding threshold is obtained to have minimum overall variance of system response.     

Stability and response of a nonlinear coupled pitch-roll ship model under parametric and harmonic excitations

The present study deals with the response of a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) system with quadratic coupling under parametric and harmonic excitations. The method of multiple scale perturbation technique is applied to solve the nonlinear differential equations and obtain approximate solutions up to and including the second order approximations. All resonance cases are extracted and investigated. Stability of the system is studied using frequency response equations and phase-plane method. Numerical solutions are carried out and the results are presented graphically and discussed. The effects of the different parameters on both response and stability of the system are investigated. The reported results are compared to the available published work.     

耦合Duffing-van der Pol系统的首次穿越问题

利用拟不可积Hamilton系统随机平均法，研究了高斯白噪声激励下耦 合Duffing-van der Pol系统的首次穿越问题. 首先给出了条件可靠性函数满足的后向 Kolmogorov 方程以及首次穿越时间条件矩满足的广义Pontryagin方程. 然后根据 这两类偏微分方程的边界条件和初始条件，详细分析了在外激与参激共 同作用以及纯外激作用等情况下系统的可靠性与首次穿越时间的各阶矩. 最后以图表形式给 出了可靠性函数、首次穿越时间的概率密度以及平均首次穿越时间的数值结果.     

含外激励van der Pol-Mathieu方程的非线性动力学特性分析

本文针对含有自激励,参数激励和外激励等三种激励联合作用下van der Pol-Mathieu方程的周期响应和准周期运动进行分析,发现其准周期运动的频谱中含有均匀边频带这一新的特性.首先,采用传统的增量谐波平衡法(IHB法)分析了van der Pol-Mathieu方程的周期响应,得到了其非线性频率响应曲线;再利用F...     

Global Bifurcations and Chaotic Dynamics in Nonlinear Nonplanar Oscillations of a Parametrically Excited Cantilever Beam

This paper presents the analysis of the global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of a cantilever beam subjected to a harmonic axial excitation and transverse excitations at the free end. The governing nonlinear equations of nonplanar motion with parametric and external excitations are obtained. The Galerkin procedure is applied to the partial differential governing equation to obtain a two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system with parametric and forcing excitations. The resonant case considered here is 2:1 internal resonance, principal parametric resonance-1/2 subharmonic resonance for the in-plane mode and fundamental parametric resonance–primary resonance for the out-of-plane mode. The parametrically and externally excited system is transformed to the averaged equations by using the method of multiple scales. From the averaged equation obtained here, the theory of normal form is applied to find the explicit formulas of normal forms associated with a double zero and a pair of pure imaginary eigenvalues. Based on the normal form obtained above, a global perturbation method is utilized to analyze the global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics in the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam. The global bifurcation analysis indicates that there exist the heteroclinic bifurcations and the Silnikov type single-pulse homoclinic orbit in the averaged equation for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam. These results show that the chaotic motions can occur in the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam. Numerical simulations verify the analytical predictions.     

拟可积哈密顿系统中噪声诱发的混沌运动

研究拟可积哈密顿系统在谐和与噪声激励联合作用下的混沌运动。通过对噪声性质的假定,并利用动力系统理论,给出了高维梅尔尼科夫方法应用于随机拟可积哈密顿系统的推广形式。根据这种推广的方法,研究了谐和与高斯白噪声激励联合使用下两自由度拟可积哈密顿系统 同宿分岔,得出了系统发生混沌运动的参数阈值,并由此讨论了噪声对系统的混沌运动的影响。蒙特-卡罗方法模拟、李雅普诺夫指数等数值结果表明,这种推广的方法是有效的。     

谐和与窄带随机噪声联合作用下Duffing系统的参数主共振

研究了Ｄｕｆｉｎｇ振子在谐和与窄带随机噪声联合激励下的参数主共振响应和稳定性问题．用多尺度法分离了系统的快变项，并求出了系统的最大Ｌｙａｐｕｎｏｖ指数．本文还分析了失稳及跳跃现象，及系统的阻尼项、非线性项、随机项、确定性参激强度对系统响应的影响．数值模拟表明本文提出的方法是有效的．     

Stochastic averaging: An approximate method of solving random vibration problems

Results obtained by applying the method of stochastic averaging to random vibration problems are discussed. This method is applicable to a variety of problems involving the response of lightly damped systems to broad-band random excitations. Solutions pertaining to both linear and non-linear vibrations are reviewed, and it is shown that the technique enables, in the case of parametric excitation, stability criteria to be established. Some results which have been obtained relating to the first-passage reliability problems are also surveyed. Various applications of the theory to engineering problems are outlined.     

Nonlinearly damped systems under simultaneous broad-band and harmonic excitations

The probability distribution of the response of a nonlinearly damped system subjected to both broad-band and harmonic excitations is investigated. The broad-band excitation is additive, and the harmonic excitations can be either additive or multiplicative. The frequency of a harmonic excitation can be either near or far from a resonance frequency of the system. The stochastic averaging method is applied to obtain the Itô type stochastic differential equations for an averaged system described by a set of slowly varying variables, which are approximated as components of a Markov vector. Then, a procedure based on the concept of stationary potential is used to obtain the exact stationary probability density for a class of such averaged systems. For those systems not belonging to this class, approximate solutions are obtained using the method of weighted residuals. Application of the exact and approximate solution procedures are illustrated in two specific cases, and the results are compared with those obtained from Monte Carlo simulations.     

Dynamic response of a deepwater riser subjected to combined axial and transverse excitation by the nonlinear coupled model

In offshore engineering long slender risers are simultaneously subjected to both axial and transverse excitations. The axial load is the fluctuating top tension which is induced by the floater’s heave motion, while the transverse excitation comes from environmental loads such as waves. As the time-varying axial load may trigger classical parametric resonance, dynamic analysis of a deepwater riser with combined axial and transverse excitations becomes more complex. In this study, to fully capture the coupling effect between the planar axial and transverse vibrations, the nonlinear coupled equations of a riser’s dynamic motion are formulated and then solved by the central difference method in the time domain. For comparison, numerical simulations are carried out for both linear and nonlinear models. The results show that the transverse displacements predicted by both models are similar to each other when only the random transverse excitation is applied. However, when the combined axial dynamic tension and transverse wave forces are both considered, the linear model underestimates the response because it ignores the coupling effect. Thus the coupled model is more appropriate for deep water. It is also found that the axial excitation can significantly increase the riser’s transverse response and hence the bending stress, especially for cases when the time-varying tension is located at the classical parametric resonance region. Such time-varying effects should be taken into account in fatigue safety assessment.     

Forced response of quadratic nonlinear oscillator: comparison of various approaches

The primary resonances of a quadratic nonlinear system under weak and strong external excitations are investigated with the emphasis on the comparison of different analytical approximate approaches. The forced vibration of snap-through mechanism is treated as a quadratic nonlinear oscillator. The Lindstedt-Poincaré method, the multiple-scale method, the averaging method, and the harmonic balance method are used to determine the amplitude-frequency response relationships of the steady-state responses. It is demonstrated that the zeroth-order harmonic components should be accounted in the application of the harmonic balance method. The analytical approximations are compared with the numerical integrations in terms of the frequency response curves and the phase portraits. Supported by the numerical results, the harmonic balance method predicts that the quadratic nonlinearity bends the frequency response curves to the left. If the excitation amplitude is a second-order small quantity of the bookkeeping parameter, the steady-state responses predicted by the second-order approximation of the LindstedtPoincaré method and the multiple-scale method agree qualitatively with the numerical results. It is demonstrated that the quadratic nonlinear system implies softening type nonlinearity for any quadratic nonlinear coefficients.     

Stochastically Perturbed Linear Gyroscopic Systems

ABSTRACT

Dynamic stability of linear conservative gyroscopic systems under stochastic parametric excitations of small intensity is examined. Conditions for mean square stability of dynamic response are obtained. Results are shown to depend only on those values of the excitation spectral density near twice the natural frequencies and the combination frequencies of the system. These results are applied to the problem of flow induced vibration in a supported pipe conveying fluid with pulsating velocity. The effects of mean flow velocity and virtual mass on the extent of parametric instability regions are then discussed.     

Stochastic averaging of strongly nonlinear oscillators with small fractional derivative damping under combined harmonic and white noise excitations

A stochastic averaging method for strongly nonlinear oscillators with lightly fractional derivative damping of order α (0<α<1) under combined harmonic and white noise external and (or) parametric excitations is proposed and then applied to study the first passage failure of Duffing oscillator with lightly fractional derivative damping of order 1/2 under combined harmonic and white noise excitations in the case of primary parametric resonance. Numerical results show that the proposed method works very well.