Analytical solutions for vibrating fractal composite rods and beams

Fractals have the potential to describe complex microstructures but presently no solution methodologies exist for the prediction of deformation on transiently deforming fractal structures. This is achieved in this paper with the development of analytical solutions on vibrating composite rods and beams. The fractals considered are necessarily deterministic and relatively simple in form to demonstrate the solution methodology. The solutions are limited to beams and rods constructed from an idealised-composite material consisting of relatively large rigid particles embedded in an infinitely thin pliable matrix. Although, as a result, the fractal composite system is not representative of a realistic physical system the methodologies presented do serve to highlight the practical difficulties in using fractals in structural dynamics. Static loading is restricted to spatially invariant axial forces and bending moments as solutions on a unified state of continuum stress are sought which then serve as initial conditions for the vibratory problem. It is demonstrated that measurable displacement is possible on a fractal structure and that finite measures of total, kinetic and strain energy are simultaneously achievable. The approach involves the use of modal analysis to determine modes at natural frequencies that satisfy boundary conditions. These are combined to provide a free vibration solution on a fractal that satisfies the initial conditions in the form of a fractal displacement field.     

Nonlinear transversely vibrating beams by the improved energy balance method and the global residue harmonic balance method

Mathematical modeling of many engineering systems such as beam structures often leads to nonlinear ordinary or partial differential equations. Nonlinear vibration analysis of the beam structures is very important in mechanical and industrial applications. This paper presents the high order frequency-amplitude relationship for nonlinear transversely vibrating beams with odd and even nonlinearities using the improved energy balance method and the global residue harmonic balance method. The accuracy of the energy balance method is improved based on combining features of collocation method and Galerkin–Petrov method, and an improved harmonic balance method is proposed which is called the global residue harmonic balance method. Unlike other harmonic balance methods, all the former global residual errors are introduced in the present approximation to improve the accuracy. Finally, preciseness of the present analytic procedures is evaluated in contrast with numerical calculations methods, giving excellent results.     

Dynamics of solutions of the simplest nonlinear boundary-value problems

We investigate two classes of essentially nonlinear boundary-value problems by using methods of the theory of dynamical systems and two special metrics. We prove that, for boundary-value problems of both these classes, all solutions tend (in the first metric) to upper semicontinuous functions and, under sufficiently general conditions, the asymptotic behavior of almost every solution can be described (by using the second metric) by a certain stochastic process. Institute of Mathematics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 810–826, June, 1999.     

Parametric vibrations of viscoelastic beams

The method of averaging is used for an analysis of the effect which the viscous resistance of a beam material has on the stability range of beam vibrations under the most general stipulations regarding the beam supports.     

Exponential attractors for non-autonomous systems: Long-time behaviour of vibrating beams

We introduce the concept of exponential attractor for non-autonomous systems. Then we prove the existence and finite dimensionality of the attractor for the model equation where K and f are quasiperiodic in time.     

Dynamics of micromachined vibrating gimbal and wheel gyroscope

We deduce dynamic equations of micromachined vibrating gimbal and wheel gyroscope and give an approximate solution of enough accuracy. The comparison between the approximate solution and the solution used often in the literature is given. According to property of the approximate solution a decoupled two-axes gyroscope will be composed of two single-axes gyroscopes.     

On closed-form solutions of triple series equations involving Laguerre polynomials

We consider some triple series equations involving generalized Laguerre polynomials. These equations are reduced to triple integral equations for Bessel functions. The closed-form solutions of the triple integral equations for Bessel functions are obtained and, finally, we get the closed-form solutions of triple series equations for Laguerre polynomials.     

Parametric oscillations of nonlinear flutter systems

We consider a special class of abstract nonlinear equations of hyperbolic type that contains the main boundary value problems of panel flutter theory. For these equations, we study the existence and stability of parametric oscillations bifurcating from the zero equilibrium in the case of small damping.     

Analysis of a nonlinear model of the vibrating string

A nonlinear model of the vibrating string is studied under the assumption that the motion is transversal and existence and uniqueness theorems are given for the Cauchy-Dirichlet problems. Some numerical experiments are also described, illustrating the behaviour of this model with respect to the nonlinear Kirchhoff model and the classical linear model of D'Alembert.The research has been supported by MURST 40% and 60% Research Contracts     

Periodic behavior of a nonlinear third order vibrating system

A theorem is proved to show that the third order differential equation x^‴+f(t,x,x^′,x^″)=0 has nontrivial solutions characterized by x^′(0)=x^′(τ)=0 when x,x^′,x^″ and f(t,x,x^′,x^″) are bounded. A second condition is introduced to prove the existence of periodic solution for this equation. It is shown that the equation has a τ-periodic solution if f(t,x,x^′,x^″) is an even function with respect to x^′. The existence and periodicity conditions would be applied to third order systems such as viscoelastic mechanical vibration isolator system. The concepts of Green’s function and the Schauder’s fixed-point theorem have been used for proving the third-order-existence theorem.     

Thermal post-buckling analysis of square plates resting on elastic foundation: A simple closed-form solutions

Thermal post-buckling paths of homogeneous, isotropic, square plate configurations resting on elastic foundation (Winkler type) subjected to biaxial compressive thermal loads are expressed as simple closed-form solutions by using the Rayleigh–Ritz method based on coupled displacement fields. Geometric non-linearity of von-Karman type is considered. The in-plane displacement field variations used in the formulation of Rayleigh–Ritz method are derived by using the governing in-plane static differential equations of the plate which in turn simplifies the difficulty of assuming an in-plane displacement field variations of the square plate. Accuracy and robustness of the proposed closed-form solutions are demonstrated by using the non-linear finite element formulation results which are obtained from an equilibrium path approach.     

Periodic solutions of vibrating strings. Degree theory approach

The aim of this article is to study bifurcations and continuation of T-periodic solutions of a family of string equations. As the main tool we use the global Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction and degree theory for S¹-equivariant gradient maps defined in [23]. Entrata in Redazione il 19 dicembre 1998. Ricevuto nuova versione il 27 maggio 1999 Supported by Nicholas Copernicus University grant 341 M.     

The closed-form particular solutions for Laplace and biharmonic operators using a Gaussian function

Particular solutions play a critical role in solving inhomogeneous problems using boundary methods such as boundary element methods or boundary meshless methods. In this short article, we derive the closed-form particular solutions for the Laplace and biharmonic operators using the Gaussian radial basis function. The derived particular solutions are implemented numerically to solve boundary value problems using the method of particular solutions and the localized method of approximate particular solutions. Two examples in 2D and 3D are given to show the effectiveness of the derived particular solutions.     

The Chaplygin Sleigh with Parametric Excitation: Chaotic Dynamics and Nonholonomic Acceleration

This paper is concerned with the Chaplygin sleigh with time-varying mass distribution (parametric excitation). The focus is on the case where excitation is induced by a material point that executes periodic oscillations in a direction transverse to the plane of the knife edge of the sleigh. In this case, the problem reduces to investigating a reduced system of two first-order equations with periodic coefficients, which is similar to various nonlinear parametric oscillators. Depending on the parameters in the reduced system, one can observe different types of motion, including those accompanied by strange attractors leading to a chaotic (diffusion) trajectory of the sleigh on the plane. The problem of unbounded acceleration (an analog of Fermi acceleration) of the sleigh is examined in detail. It is shown that such an acceleration arises due to the position of the moving point relative to the line of action of the nonholonomic constraint and the center of mass of the platform. Various special cases of existence of tensor invariants are found.     

On the characterizations of the breakdown points of nonlinear vibrating string

We consider the mixed initial and boundary value problem of a hyperbolic 2-conservation law which describes the motion of a model of nonlinear vibrating string. It is known that solutions of such problems eventually break down in the sense that some of their first-order derivatives become unbounded at finite time. We call a point at which the breakdown first occurs a breakdown point. We prove that there are at most finitely many breakdown points. We also characterize such points in regard to existence or nonexistence of shock curves.