Singularity analysis of Duffing-van der Pol system with two bifurcation parameters under multi-frequency excitations

Bifurcation properties of a Duffing-van der Pol system with two parameters under multi-frequency excitations are studied. Three cases are discussed： （1） λ 1 is considered as bifurcation parameter, （2） λ 2 is considered as bifurcation parameter, and （3） λ 1 and λ 2 are both considered as bifurcation parameters. According to the definition of transition sets, the whole parametric space is divided into several different persistent regions by the transition sets for different cases. The bifurcation diagrams in different persistent regions are obtained, which provides a theoretical basis for optimal design of the system.     

Free vibration analysis of third-order shear deformable composite beams using dynamic stiffness method

The dynamic stiffness method is introduced to investigate the free vibration of laminated composite beams based on a third-order shear deformation theory which accounts for parabolic distribution of the transverse shear strain through the thickness of the beam. The exact dynamic stiffness matrix is found directly from the analytical solutions of the basic governing differential equations of motion. The Poisson effect, shear deformation, rotary inertia, in-plane deformation are considered in the analysis. Application of the derived dynamic stiffness matrix to several particular laminated beams is discussed. The influences of Poisson effect, material anisotropy, slenderness and end condition on the natural frequencies of the beams are investigated. The numerical results are compared with the existing solutions in literature whenever possible to demonstrate and validate the present method.     

Higher-order constraints for higher kinematic pairs and their application to mobility and shakiness analysis of mechanisms

The mobility analysis of mechanisms rests on an adequate formulation of the constraints defining its configuration space (c-space). Whereas there is no general method for a global analysis, the higher-order mobility analysis, which locally approximates the c-space, is applicable to general mechanisms. It requires an efficient method for the evaluation of higher-order constraints, i.e. constraints on velocity, acceleration, jerk, etc. Such a method is known for linkages comprising lower pair joints only. In this paper a method for the efficient evaluation of higher-order constraints for mechanisms comprising higher pair joints is proposed. The method builds on the results for the lower pair linkages. It leads to a computationally simply recursive algorithm. This is applied to the mobility analysis that allows to determine the local finite mobility, to detect singularities, and to identify shaky mechanisms.     

Singularity structure of the Hopf bifurcation surface of a differential equation with two delays

We investigated the structure of the so-called first Hopf bifurcation surface associated to a differential equation with two time delays. A geometrical approach leading naturally to a number theoretic approach provides rigourous results which are corroborated by previous numerical and experimental (optical compound resonator) results.     

四维超混沌系统Hopf分岔分析与反控制

对超混沌系统进行分岔反控制的研究已成为当前一个重要研究方向,常采用线性控制器实现反控制。首先,对一个四维超混沌系统的Hopf分岔特性进行了分析,利用高维分岔理论推导出分岔特性与参数之间的关系式,以此判断系统的分岔类型。然后,设计一个由线性与非线性组合成的混合控制器对系统进行分岔反控制,控制参数取值不同时,系统会呈现出不同的分岔特性。通过分析得出,调控线性控制器参数可以使系统Hopf分岔提前或延迟发生;同时,调控混合控制器的两个控制参数,可以改变系统Hopf分岔特性,实现分岔反控制。     

Free vibration of a three-layered sandwich beam using the dynamic stiffness method and experiment

In this paper, an accurate dynamic stiffness model for a three-layered sandwich beam of unequal thicknesses is developed and subsequently used to investigate its free vibration characteristics. Each layer of the beam is idealised by the Timoshenko beam theory and the combined system is reduced to a tenth-order system using symbolic computation. An exact dynamic stiffness matrix is then developed by relating amplitudes of harmonically varying loads to those of the responses. The resulting dynamic stiffness matrix is used with particular reference to the Wittrick–Williams algorithm to carry out the free vibration analysis of a few illustrative examples. The accuracy of the theory is confirmed both by published literature and by experiment. The paper closes with some concluding remarks.     

Numerical analysis of shear-band bifurcation

A numerical analysis of bifurcation in shear band pattern is presented to help understand the distributions of the velocity variation in the shear band. Comparison with the results of analytic method indicates that: (1) the critical strain is irrelevant to the relative width of the shear band; (2) the variations along the direction normal to the band have indeed the controlling effect whilst the effect of variations along the tangential direction is negligible. The project is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

弹性连杆机构广义刚度可靠性分析的数值模拟法

首先对响应面法进行了改进并应用于弹性连杆机构刚度可靠性分析,以迭代的格式和选择最优插值点的响应面法确定弹性连杆机构刚度可靠性分析的极限状态函数,编制了相应的有限元程序。然后在考虑安全、失效状态模糊性的基础上建立了弹性连杆机构的广义可靠性分析模型;提出了以重要抽样法与描述性抽样法相结合来求解弹性连杆机构广义失效概率的方法,此方法可以大量减少抽样时间,并且可以大大提高抽样效率,从而加快结果的收敛速度。     

Performance of the MLPG method for static shakedown analysis for bounded kinematic hardening structures

Shakedown analysis is an extension of plastic limit analysis to the case of variable repeated loads and plays a significant role in safety assessment and structural design. This paper presents a solution procedure based on the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) method for lower-bound shakedown analysis of bounded kinematic hardening structures. The numerical implementation is very simple and convenient because it is only necessary to construct an array of nodes in the targeted domain. Moreover, the natural neighbour interpolation (NNI) is employed to construct trial functions for simplifying the imposition of essential boundary conditions. The kinematic hardening behaviour is simulated by an overlay model and the numerical difficulties caused by the time parameter are overcome by introducing the conception of load corner. The reduced-basis technique is applied to solve the mathematical programming iteratively through a sequence of reduced residual stress subspaces with very low dimensions and the resulting non-linear programming sub-problems are solved via the Complex method. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed solution procedure is feasible and effective to determine the shakedown loads of bounded kinematic hardening structures as well as unbounded kinematic hardening structures.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis of railway bogie

The railway bogie, the most important running component, has direct association with the dynamic performance of the whole vehicle system. The bifurcation type of the bogie that is affected by vehicle parameters will decide the behavior of the vehicle hunting stability. This paper mainly analyzes the effect of the yaw damper and wheel tread shape on the stability and bifurcation type of the railway bogie. The center manifold theorem is adopted to reduce the dimension of the bogie dynamical model, and the symbolic expression for determining the bifurcation type at the critical speed is obtained by the method of normal form. As a result, the influence of yaw damper on the bifurcation type of the bogie is given qualitatively in contrast to typical wheel profiles with high and low wheel tread effective conicities. Besides, the discriminant of bifurcation type for the wheel tread parameter variation is given which depicts the variation tendency of dynamics characteristics. Finally, numerical analysis is given to exhibit corresponding bifurcation diagrams.     

A modified basis reduction method for limited kinematic hardening shakedown analysis under complex loads

A novel extension of the basis reduction method for kinematic hardening shakedown problem is presented. Firstly, the basis reduction method is implemented based on the modified Newton–Raphson (N-R) method. Then a new technique for the construction of back stress field is introduced, where the simultaneous influence of multiple load corners in shakedown is taken into consideration. Finally, two typical numerical examples are investigated. The results compared with previous works in literatures demonstrated that the proposed method is accurate and the performance in reducing of computation time is significant.     

Non-linear bifurcation analysis of non-gradient systems

The post-divergence behaviour of non-gradient systems is studied through a perturbation approach, attention being restricted to equilibrium paths in the neighbourhood of a critical point. Simple and coincident critical points are treated separately. Various characteristic phenomena are explored in general terms by identifying certain distinct properties of the Jacobian matrix in a state-space formulation. It is demonstrated that the well-known asymmetric and symmetric points of bifurcation can also arise in non-gradient systems and the conditions giving rise to each of these phenomena are discussed. An illustrative example is presented.     

Second order mobility analysis of mechanisms using closure equations

This paper presents a general method for the second order local mobility analysis of kinematical chains using closure equations. As it is known, one can obtain the mobility of a mechanism as the nullspace of its Jacobian Matrix. But in the event of a singular configuration, not all of the linear combinations of these vectors represent finite movements. This phenomena leads to branching, kinematotropy and other kinds of particular behavior of mechanisms. The exposed algorithm allows one to obtain the restrictions that appear in these cases, thus providing a better understanding of the behavior of the mechanism. The solution of these restrictions gives information about not only the real number of second order finite motions, but also the vectors defining the branches of finite movements, if any. Although the algorithm itself is applicable with other kind of methods for the definition of the Jacobian Matrix, the use of closure equations leads to simplicity. One of the advantages of the presented method is that it takes advantage of the work performed to solve the velocity and acceleration analysis. This reduces the amount of operations needed to perform the analysis The paper presents some examples of application, including complex mechanisms in singular configurations and a kinematotropic mechanism.     

等直杆单元切线刚度矩阵的精确分析方法

为了有效完成大型铰接单层网壳结构的后屈曲分析,本文采用对杆单元杆端力函数求导的方法推导出了等直杆单元切线刚度矩阵的精确形式。该切线刚度矩阵不受结构小变形限制,适用于结构产生任意大结点位移情况。以六角星桁架、平面圆拱桁架和大跨K8单层网壳结构为算例,采用广义位移控制法进行非线性后屈曲分析,其中预测子采用本文杆单元切线刚度矩阵。算例分析结果表明,本文杆单元切线刚度矩阵在大型铰接单层网壳结构的非线性后屈曲分析中有很强的预测能力。     

Identification of the elastic stiffness of composites using the virtual fields method and digital image correlation

This paper presents an effective methodology for characterizing the mechanical parameters of composites using digital image correlation combined with the virtual fields method.By using a three-point bending test configuration,this method can identify all mechanical parameters of the material with merely a single test.Successful results verified that this method is especially effective for characterizing composite materials.In this study,the method is applied to measure the orthotropic elastic parameters of fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composites before and after the hygrothermal aging process.The results indicate that the hygrothermal aging environment significantly influences the mechanical property of a composite.The components of the parameters in the direction of the fiber bundle decreased significantly.From the accuracy analysis,we found that the actual measurement accuracy is sensitive to a shift of the horizontal edges and rotation of the vertical edges.     

On singular perturbation method of perturbed bifurcation problems

In this paper, the general mathematical principle is over-all explained and a new general technique is presented in order to calculate uniformly asymptotic expansions of solutions of the perturbed bifurcation problem (1.6) in the vicinity of y=0, λ=0,δ=0, by means of singular perturbation method. Simultaneously, Newton’s polygon^[4] is generalized. Finally, the calculating results of two examples are given.     

识别求解路径上奇异点的一个计算方法

提出一个在路径跟踪计算中识别分支点和极值点的实用方法，给出了算例。     

Dynamic stability and bifurcation analysis in fractional thermodynamics

In mechanics, viscoelasticity was the first field of applications in studying geomaterials. Further possibilities arise in spatial non-locality. Non-local materials were already studied in the 1960s by several authors as a part of continuum mechanics and are still in focus of interest because of the rising importance of materials with internal micro- and nano-structure. When material instability gained more interest, non-local behavior appeared in a different aspect. The problem was concerned to numerical analysis, because then instability zones exhibited singular properties for local constitutive equations. In dynamic stability analysis, mathematical aspects of non-locality were studied by using the theory of dynamic systems. There the basic set of equations describing the behavior of continua was transformed to an abstract dynamic system consisting of differential operators acting on the perturbation field variables. Such functions should satisfy homogeneous boundary conditions and act as indicators of stability of a selected state of the body under consideration. Dynamic systems approach results in conditions for cases, when the differential operators have critical eigenvalues of zero real parts (dynamic stability or instability conditions). When the critical eigenvalues have non-trivial eigenspace, the way of loss of stability is classified as a typical (or generic) bifurcation. Our experiences show that material non-locality and the generic nature of bifurcation at instability are connected, and the basic functions of the non-trivial eigenspace can be used to determine internal length quantities of non-local mechanics. Fractional calculus is already successfully used in thermo-elasticity. In the paper, non-locality is introduced via fractional strain into the constitutive relations of various conventional types. Then, by defining dynamic systems, stability and bifurcation are studied for states of thermo-mechanical solids. Stability conditions and genericity conditions are presented for constitutive relations under consideration.     

Perturbation formulation of continuation method including limit and bifurcation points

This paper gives the perturbation formulation of continuation method for nonlinear equations. Emphasis is laid on the discussion of searching for the singular points on the equilibrium path and of tracing the paths over the limit or bifurcation points. The method is applied to buckling analysis of thin shells. The pre-and post-buckling equilibrium paths and deflections can be obtained, which are illustrated in examples of buckling analysis of cylindrical and toroidal shells.