Influence of nonlinear subunits on the resonance frequency band gaps of acoustic metamaterial

Nonlinear Dynamics - Recently, a significant attention has been directed toward so called ‘acoustic metamaterials’ which have large similarity with already-known ‘electromagnetic...     

Dynamic properties of a body with discontinual mass variation

In this paper the procedure for the dynamic analysis of body separation is introduced. Based on the general laws of classical dynamics, the method for obtaining the velocity and the angular velocity of the remainder body during separation is developed. Due to the discontinual mass variation, the jump-like change of the velocity and the angular velocity of the body is evident. Various types of motion of the separated body are considered. Depending on the type of motion of the separated body the dynamic properties of the remainder body are obtained. As a special case the in-plane motion of the body before and after separation is considered. The theoretical considerations are applied for the separation analysis of a rotor (a shaft-disc system). The transient motion of the body after separation is investigated. To prove the correctness of the procedure suggested in the paper, the case when the mass and the moment of inertia of the separated body are infinitesimal is analyzed. The obtained differential equations are the same as those previously obtained.     

A non-simultaneous variational approach for the oscillators with fractional-order power nonlinearities

This paper is concerned with a class of conservative oscillators the restitution force of which is of a power form which includes positive non-integer exponents. It is shown how an approximate Lagrangian and Hamilton’s variational principle can be used to obtain a second-order approximate solution for their free vibrations. Due to the fact that, in a general case, when the restoring force is multi-term, the period cannot be obtained from the energy conservation law in a closed form, the problem is formulated as a one-point boundary-value problem, and a non-simultaneous variation is introduced. The explicit expressions for the amplitudes and frequency of oscillations are derived, in which there are no restrictions on the values of the non-integer powers. The analytically obtained results are compared with numerical results as well as with some approximate analytical results from the literature.     

Dynamics of body separation—analytical procedure

In this paper, an analytical procedure for the determination of the dynamic parameters of a remainder body after mass separation is developed. The method is based on the general principles of momentum and angular momentum of a body and system of bodies. The kinetic energy of motion of the whole body and also of the separated and remainder body is considered. The derivatives of kinetic energies with respect to the generalized velocity determine the velocity and angular velocity of the remainder body. To confirm the proposed procedure, the results are compared with those obtained using the method of momenta and angular momenta. In the paper, the theorem about increase of kinetic energies of the separated and remainder bodies for perfectly plastic separation is proved. The increase of the kinetic energies correspond to the relative velocities and angular velocities of the separated and remainder bodies. As an example, the mass separation from a pendulum is considered. The kinematic properties of the remainder pendulum are obtained using the analytic procedure. The results are in agreement with those obtained by applying the basic principles of Newton’s mechanics.     

Identifying nonlinear biomechanical models by multicriteria analysis

In this study, the methodology developed by Srdjevic and Cveticanin (International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 34 (2004) 307–318) for the nonbiased (objective) parameter identification of the linear biomechanical model exposed to vertical vibrations is extended to the identification of n-degree of freedom (DOF) nonlinear biomechanical models. The dynamic performance of the n-DOF nonlinear model is described in terms of response functions in the frequency domain, such as the driving-point mechanical impedance and seat-to-head transmissibility function. For randomly generated parameters of the model, nonlinear equations of motion are solved using the Runge–Kutta method. The appropriate data transformation from the time-to-frequency domain is performed by a discrete Fourier transformation. Squared deviations of the response functions from the target values are used as the model performance evaluation criteria, thus shifting the problem into the multicriteria framework. The objective weights of criteria are obtained by applying the Shannon entropy concept. The suggested methodology is programmed in Pascal and tested on a 4-DOF nonlinear lumped parameter biomechanical model. The identification process over the 2000 generated sets of parameters lasts less than 20 s. The model response obtained with the imbedded identified parameters correlates well with the target values, therefore, justifying the use of the underlying concept and the mathematical instruments and numerical tools applied. It should be noted that the identified nonlinear model has an improved accuracy of the biomechanical response compared to the accuracy of a linear model.     

Periodic solution of the generalized Rayleigh equation

The periodic solutions of a strongly cubic nonlinear oscillator whose motion is described with the generalized Rayleigh equation are studied. Approximate analytic solving methods are introduced. A new method based on homotopy and averaging is developed to determine the limit cycle motion. The obtained analytical solutions are compared with those calculated by the elliptic harmonic balance method with generalized Fourier series and Jacobian elliptic functions. Three types of cubic nonlinearity are considered: the coefficients of the linear and cubic terms are positive, the coefficient of the linear term is positive and that of the cubic term is negative and the opposite case. Comparisons of the analytical solution and numerical solution, obtained by using the Runge-Kutta method, are illustrated with examples.     

Oscillator with variable mass excited with non-ideal source

Nonlinear Dynamics - In this paper dynamics of a non-ideal mechanical system which contains a motor, which is a non-ideal source, and an oscillator with slow time variable mass is investigated. Due...     

Approximate solution of a time-dependent differential equation

In this paper an asymptotic analytic solving method for a differential equation with complex function, small nonlinearity and a slow variable parameter is developed. The procedure is an extension of the well known Bogolubov-Mitropolski method. The correctness of the procedure is proved by an example. The vibrations of a rotor on which a thin band is wound and on which a small linear damping acts are obtained. The analytical solutions are compared with numerical ones. They are in good agreement.

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Sommario Nel presente lavoro viene sviluppato un metodo asintotico per la risoluzione analitica di equazioni differenziali di variabile complessa con piccola non-linearità e parametro lentamente variabile. La procedura proposta è un'estensione del ben noto metodo di Bogolubov-Mitropolski. La correttezza di tale procedura è provata su di un esempio. Sono ottenute le vibrazioni di un rotore su cui viene arrotolato uno strato sottile ed agisce un piccolo smorzamento lineare. Le soluzioni analitiche sono comparate con quelle numeriche con cui sono in buon accordo.