Three-to-One Internal Resonances in Parametrically Excited Hinged-Clamped Beams
Abstract The nonlinear planar response of a hinged-clamped beam to a parametric excitation of either its first mode or its second mode is investigated. The analysis accounts for mid-plane stretching, a static axial load, a restraining spring at one end, and modal damping. For a range of axial loads, the second natural frequency is approximately three times the first natural frequency and hence the first and second modes may interact via a three-to-one internal resonance. The method of multiple scales is used to attack directly the governing nonlinear integral-partial-differential equation and associated boundary conditions and derive two sets of four first-order nonlinear ordinary-differential equations describing the modulation of the amplitudes and phases of the first two modes in the case of principal parametric resonance of either the first or the second mode. Periodic motions and periodically and chaotically modulated motions of the beam are determined by investigating the equilibrium and dynamic solutions of the modulation equations. For the case of parametric resonance of the first mode, trivial and two-mode solutions are possible, whereas for the case of parametric resonance of the second mode, trivial, single-, and two-mode solutions are possible. The two-mode equilibrium solutions of the modulation equations may undergo either a supercritical or a subcritical Hopf bifurcation, depending on the magnitude of the axial load. In the region of dynamic solutions, some phenomena are documented, including period-doubling bifurcations and blue-sky catastrophes.