An experimental spatio-temporal state transition of coupled magneto-elastic system

In this paper the vibration and the traveling wave in a coupled magneto-elastic beam system are discussed experimentally. The vibration excited by the periodical forcing at the beam system propagates to another as a wave through the coupling elastic beams. Each magneto-elastic beam shows the variety of vibrations caused by the nonlinearity of the potential well and the wave propagation with time delay. The temporal vibration of the magneto-elastic beam is explained with relations to the spatial state transition based on the experimental results. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.