A Study of Chaotic Motion on Non-Linear Vibration-Isolation System
Abstract This paper deals with the vibration isolation efficiency of non-linear vibration-isolation system in a desired chaotic state. Numerical calculation shows that the response of a non-linear vibration system might have broad frequency band characterization, even though the excitation is a harmonic one if some physical parameters of the system is in certain value regimes, hence the force transferred to the supporting foundation from the isolated body will be a broad frequency band one. The practical experimental set was designed. In order to control the system in a desired chaotic state, the isolator must be a non-linear one with variable stiffness and damping. The chaotic motion of the system was identified through phase space reconstruction and spectral analysis based on the measured test data. The result shows that it is feasible to decrease the single line spectrum component significantly in the response by means of controlling chaotic vibration.