Mean-Square Response of a Second-Order System to Nonstationary, Random Excitation

1970 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 612-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Bucciarelli ◽  
C. Kuo

The mean-square response of a lightly damped, second-order system to a type of non-stationary random excitation is determined. The forcing function on the system is taken in the form of a product of a well-defined, slowly varying envelope function and a noise function. The latter is assumed to be white or correlated as a narrow band process. Taking advantage of the slow variation of the envelope function and the small damping of the system, relatively simple integrals are obtained which approximate the mean-square response. Upper bounds on the mean-square response are also obtained.

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Mosberg ◽  
M. Yildiz

The mean-square wave response of a lightly damped thermoviscoelastic medium to a special type of nonstationary random excitation is determined. The excitation function on the thermoviscoelastic medium is taken in the form of a product of a well-defined, slowly varying envelope function, and a part which prescribes the statistical characteristics of the excitation. Both the unit step and rectangular step functions are used for the envelope function, and both white noise and noise with an exponentially decaying harmonic correlation function are used to prescribe the statistical property of the excitation. By taking into consideration the slow variation envelope function and the wave characteristics of the lightly damped thermoviscoelastic medium, the mean-square response (as a function of temperature, excitation, and damping parameters with the aid of reversible and irreversible thermodynamics) is evaluated.


1969 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Barnoski ◽  
J. R. Maurer

This paper concerns the mean-square response of a single-degree-of-freedom system to amplitude modulated random noise. The formulation is developed in terms of the frequency-response function of the system and generalized spectra of the nonstationary random excitation. Both the unit step and rectangular step functions are used for the amplitude modulation, and both white noise and noise with an exponentially decaying harmonic correlation function are considered. The time-varying mean-square response is shown not to exceed its stationary value for white noise. For correlated noise, however, it is shown that the system mean-square response may exceed its stationary value.


1962 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Crandall ◽  
Asim Yildiz

The calculated response of a uniform beam to stationary random excitation depends greatly on the dynamical model postulated, on the damping mechanism assumed, and on the nature of the random excitation process. To illustrate this, the mean square deflections, slopes, bending moments, and shear forces have been compared for four different dynamical models, with three different damping mechanisms, subjected to a distributed transverse loading process which is uncorrelated spacewise and which is either ideally “white” timewise or band-limited with an upper cut-off frequency. The dynamic models are the Bernoulli-Euler beam, the Timoshenko beam, and two intermediate models, the Rayleigh beam, and a beam which has the shear flexibility of the Timoshenko beam but not the rotatory inertia. The damping mechanisms are transverse viscous damping, rotatory viscous damping, and Voigt viscoelasticity. It is found that many of the mean-square response quantities are finite when the excitation is ideally white (i.e., when the input has infinite mean square); however, some of the responses are unbounded. For these cases the rate of growth of the response as the cut-off frequency of the excitation is increased is obtained.


1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Ekwaro-Osire ◽  
Atila Ertas

In the present study, the response statistics of a beam-mass oscillator under combined harmonic and random excitation were investigated. The Gaussian and non-Gaussian closure schemes, in conjunction with the stochastic averaging method, were used to solve for the mean square response. The influence of the oscillator parameters on the response statistics was studied. The harmonic component of the excitation was observed to manifest itself, as an oscillation, in the steady-state mean square response. Results obtained showed that the non-Gaussian solution yields higher steady-state mean square responses than those obtained from the Gaussian solution. It was further shown that the harmonic time-varying properties of the oscillator are preserved by omitting the time-averaging in the stochastic averaging procedure.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-337
Author(s):  
S. F. Masri

The transient mean-square response of an uncoupled two-degree-of-freedom system under spatially correlated nonstationary random excitation is determined. The excitation is modulated white noise with an intensity function that resembles the envelopes of typical earthquakes. Results of the analysis are used to investigate the effects of (a) cross correlation, (b) shape of the intensity function, (c) delay time associated with the arrival of the excitation at different parts of the system, and (d) dimensionless system parameters on the mean-square proximity spectra.


1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Di Paola Mario ◽  
Nguyen Dong Anh

Stochastic linearization method is one of the most useful tools for analysis of nonlinear systems under random excitation. The fundamental idea of the classical stochastic linearization consists in replacing the original nonlinear equation by a linear one in such a way that the difference between two equations is minimized in the mean square value. In this paper a new version of the stochastic linearization is proposed. It is shown that for two nonlinear systems considered the new version gives good results for both the weak and strong nonlinearities.


Author(s):  
Qingzhao Zhou ◽  
David He ◽  
Yaping Zhao

In this paper, the stochastic properties of a uniform Timoshenko cantilever beam are investigated systematically. Based on the external viscous damping and Kelvin–Voigt viscoelastic damping, the partial differential equations of the Timoshenko beam subjected to random excitation are derived. The applied load is the concentrated force, and the excitation related to includes the ideal white noise, the band-limited white noise, and the exponential noise. Expressions are obtained for the space–time correlation functions and the space–frequency power spectral density functions of the transverse displacement response. The evident improvement is that the infinite integral and the definite integration in the mean square responses are worked out by means of the residue integral method and the integration by partial fraction, and the exact solutions of the mean square response are obtained in the form of an infinite series finally. This improvement provides a basis for both the mode truncation and the modal cross-spectral densities whether which can be ignored. Providing the numerical example, the numerical results obtained show the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.


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