DISSIPATIVE OSCILLATORS’ POWER CHARACTERISTIC NON-SYMMETRY DYNAMIC EFFECT

The features of motion of a non-linear oscillator under the instantaneous force pulse loading are studied. The elastic characteristic of the oscillator is given by a polygonal chain consisting of two linear segments. The focus of the paper is on the influence of the dissipative forces on the possibility of occurrence of the elastic characteristic non-symmetry dynamic effect, studied previously without taking into account the influence of these forces. Four types of drag forces are considered, namely linear viscous friction, Coulomb dry friction, position friction, and quadratic viscous resistance. For the cases of linear viscous friction and Coulomb dry friction the analytical solutions of the differential equation of oscillations are found by the fitting method and the formulae for computing the swings are derived. The conditions on the parameters of the problem are determined for which the elastic characteristic non-symmetry dynamic effect occurs in the system. The conditions for the effect to occur in the system with the position friction are derived from the energy relations without solving the differential equation of motion. In the case of quadratic viscous friction the first integral of the differential equation of motion is given by the Lambert function of either positive or negative argument depending on the value of the initial velocity. The elastic characteristic non-symmetry dynamic effect is shown to occur for small initial velocities, whereas it is absent from the system when the initial velocities are sufficiently large. The values of the Lambert function are proposed to be computed by either linear interpolation of the known data or approximation of the Lambert function by elementary functions using asymptotic formulae which approximation error is less than 1%. The theoretical study presented in the paper is followed up by computational examples. The results of the computations by the formulae proposed in the paper are shown to be in perfect agreement with the results of numerical integration of the differential equation of motion of the oscillator using a computer.

Quasistatic elastic-plastic loading and unloading of rods with coulomb dry friction

Loading of elastic-plastic rods with account on Prandtl’s scheme is considered in the paper, and nonlinear interactions are taken into account under the law of Coulomb friction. Exact analytical solutions of quasi-stationary problems of interaction of elastic-plastic rod and undeformable media surrounding it are given.

Impact Behavior of a Rotating Rigid Body with Impact and Viscous Friction

The impact between a rotating link and a solid flat surface is considered. For the impact, we consider three distinct periods: elastic period, elastoplastic period, and restitution period. A Hertzian contact force is considered for the elastic period. Nonlinear contact forces developed from finite element analysis are used for the remaining two phases. The tangential effect is taken into account considering a friction force that combines the Coulomb dry friction model and a viscous friction function of velocity. Simulations results are obtained for different friction parameters. An experimental setup was designed to measure the contact time during impact. The experimental and simulation results are compared for different lengths of the link.

The brachistochronic motion of a vertical disk rolling on a horizontal plane without slip

This paper deals with the brachistochronic motion of a thin uniform disk rolling on a horizontal plane without slip. The problem is formulated and solved within the frame of the optimal control theory. The brachistochronic motion of the disk is controlled by three torques. The possibility of the realization of the brachistochronic motion found in presence of Coulomb dry friction forces is inspected. Also, the influence of values of the coefficient of dry friction on the structure of the extremal trajectory is analyzed. Two illustrative numerical examples are provided.

Phase Portraits of the Autonomous Duffing Single-Degree-of-Freedom Oscillator with Coulomb Dry Friction

The paper presents phase portraits of the autonomous Duffing single-degree-of-freedom system with Coulomb dry friction in its δ-γ-ε parameter space. The considered nonlinearities of the cubic stiffness (ε) and Coulomb dry friction (γ) are widely used throughout the literature. It has been shown that there can be more than one sticking region in the phase plane. It has also been shown that an equilibrium point occurs at the critical combinations of values of the parameters γ and ε which gives rise to zero eigenvalue of the linearised system. The unstable limit cycle may appear in the case of negative viscous damping (δ); δ<0.