Determining Stability Boundaries Using Gyroscopic Eigenfunctions

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Renshaw

By taking advantage of modal decoupling and reduction of order, we derive a simplified procedure for applying the method of multiple scales to determine the stability boundaries of parametrically excited, gyroscopic systems. The analytic advantages of the procedure are illustrated with three examples.

2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Qun Chen ◽  
You-Qi Tang

In this paper, the parametric stability of axially accelerating viscoelastic beams is revisited. The effects of the longitudinally varying tension due to the axial acceleration are highlighted, while the tension was approximately assumed to be longitudinally uniform in previous studies. The dependence of the tension on the finite support rigidity is also considered. The generalized Hamilton principle and the Kelvin viscoelastic constitutive relation are applied to establish the governing equations and the associated boundary conditions for coupled planar motion of the beam. The governing equations are linearized into the governing equation in the transverse direction and the expression of the longitudinally varying tension. The method of multiple scales is employed to analyze the parametric stability of transverse motion. The stability boundaries are derived from the solvability conditions and the Routh-Hurwitz criterion for principal and sum resonances. In terms of stability boundaries, the governing equations with or without the longitudinal variance of tension are compared and the effects of the finite support rigidity are also examined. Some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effects of the stiffness, the viscosity, and the mean axial speed on the stability boundaries. The differential quadrature scheme is developed to numerically solve the governing equation, and the computational results confirm the outcomes of the method of multiple scales.


Author(s):  
Lixin Zhang ◽  
Jean W. Zu

Abstract The dynamic response and stability of parametrically excited viscoelastic belts are investigated in this paper. The linear viscoelastic differential constitutive law is employed to characterize the material property of belts. The generalized equation of motion is obtained for a viscoelastic moving belt with geometric nonlinearity. The method of multiple scales is applied directly to the governing equation, which is in the form of continuous gyroscopic systems. Closed-form expressions for the amplitude, existence conditions and stability conditions of non-trivial limit cycles of the summation resonance are obtained. Effects of viscoelastic parameters, excitation frequencies, excitation amplitudes and axial moving speeds on stability boundaries are discussed.


The method of multiple scales is used to examine the slow modulation of a harmonic wave moving over the surface of a two dimensional channel. The flow is assumed inviscid and incompressible, but the basic flow takes the form of an arbitrary shear. The appropriate nonlinear Schrödinger equation is derived with coefficients that depend, in a complicated way, on the shear. It is shown that this equation agrees with previous work for the case of no shear; it also agrees in the long wave limit with the appropriate short wave limit of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the shear being arbitrary. Finally, it is remarked that the stability of Stokes waves over any shear can be examined by using the results derived here.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanyong Wang ◽  
Lijuan Chen

A delayed epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate which depends on the ratio of the numbers of susceptible and infectious individuals is considered. By analyzing the corresponding characteristic equations, the effects of time delay on the stability of the equilibria are studied. By choosing time delay as bifurcation parameter, the critical value of time delay at which a Hopf bifurcation occurs is obtained. In order to derive the normal form of the Hopf bifurcation, an extended method of multiple scales is developed and used. Then, the amplitude of bifurcating periodic solution and the conditions which determine the stability of the bifurcating periodic solution are obtained. The validity of analytical results is shown by their consistency with numerical simulations.


2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
YUDA HU ◽  
JIANG ZHAO ◽  
PI JUN ◽  
GUANGHUI QING

The nonlinear magnetoelastic vibration equations and electromagnetic field equations of a conductive thin cylindrical shell in magnetic fields are derived. The nonlinear principal resonances and dynamic stabilities of the cylindrical shell simply supported in a transverse magnetic field are investigated. Approximate analytical solution and bifurcation equations of the system with principal resonances are obtained by using the method of multiple scales. The stabilities and singularities of the steady-state solutions are analyzed and the stability criterion is given. The transition sets and bifurcation figures of unfolding parameters are also obtained. The variations of the resonance amplitudes with respect to the detuning parameter, the magnetic induction intensity, and the amplitude of excitations are presented. The corresponding phase trajectories in moving phase planes are given. The stabilities of solutions, characteristics of singular points, and bifurcation are analyzed. The impacts of electromagnetic and mechanical parameters on dynamic behaviors are discussed in detail.


2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashu Sharma ◽  
S. C. Sinha

In most parametrically excited systems, stability boundaries cross each other at several points to form closed unstable subregions commonly known as “instability pockets.” The first aspect of this study explores some general characteristics of these instability pockets and their structural modifications in the parametric space as damping is induced in the system. Second, the possible destabilization of undamped systems due to addition of damping in parametrically excited systems has been investigated. The study is restricted to single degree-of-freedom systems that can be modeled by Hill and quasi-periodic (QP) Hill equations. Three typical cases of Hill equation, e.g., Mathieu, Meissner, and three-frequency Hill equations, are analyzed. State transition matrices of these equations are computed symbolically/analytically over a wide range of system parameters and instability pockets are observed in the stability diagrams of Meissner, three-frequency Hill, and QP Hill equations. Locations of the intersections of stability boundaries (commonly known as coexistence points) are determined using the property that two linearly independent solutions coexist at these intersections. For Meissner equation, with a square wave coefficient, analytical expressions are constructed to compute the number and locations of the instability pockets. In the second part of the study, the symbolic/analytic forms of state transition matrices are used to compute the minimum values of damping coefficients required for instability pockets to vanish from the parametric space. The phenomenon of destabilization due to damping, previously observed in systems with two degrees-of-freedom or higher, is also demonstrated in systems with one degree-of-freedom.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lieh ◽  
I. Haque

This paper presents a study of the parametrically excited behavior of passenger and freight vehicles on tangent track due to harmonic variations in conicity using linear models. The effect of primary and secondary stiffnesses on parametric excitation is also studied. Floquet theory is used to find the stability boundaries. The results show that wavelengths associated with conicity variation that are in the vicinity of half the kinematic wavelengths of the vehicles can lead to significant reductions in critical speeds. Results also show that the primary and warp stiffnesses can affect the severity of principal parametric resonance depending on the vehicle models and magnitude of stiffnesses chosen.


In this note we use the method of multiple scales to derive the two coupled nonlinear partial differential equations which describe the evolution of a three-dimensional wave-packet of wavenumber k on water of finite depth. The equations are used to study the stability of the uniform Stokes wavetrain to small disturbances whose length scale is large compared with 2π/ k . The stability criterion obtained is identical with that derived by Hayes under the more restrictive requirement that the disturbances are oblique plane waves in which the amplitude variation is much smaller than the phase variation.


1999 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Cederbaum

The dynamic stability of a poroelastic column subjected to a longitudinal periodic force is investigated. The column material is assumed to be transversely isotropic with respect to the column axis, and the pore fluid flow is possible in the axial direction only. The motion of the column is governed by two coupled equations, for which the stability boundaries are determined analytically by using the multiple-scales method. It is shown that due to the fluid diffusion the stability regions are expanded, relative to the elastic (drained) case. The critical (minimum) loading amplitude, for which instability occurs, is also given. [S0021-8936(00)00902-8]


Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Ming-Hui Yao ◽  
Li-Lai Bai

In this paper, the Shilnikov type multi-pulse orbits and chaotic dynamics of parametrically excited viscoelastic moving string are studied in detail. Using Kelvin-type viscoelastic constitutive law, the equation of motion for viscoelastic moving string with the external damping and parametric excitation is given. The four-dimensional averaged equation under primary parametric resonance is obtained by directly using the method of multiple scales and Galerkin’s approach to the partial differential governing equation of viscoelastic moving string. The Shilnikov type multi-pulse chaotic motions of viscoelastic moving string are also found by using numerical simulation. A new phenomenon on the multi-pulse jumping orbits and a new strange attractor are observed from three-dimensional phase space for the first time.


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