Periodic orbits, damped transitions and targeted energy transfers in oscillators with vibro-impact attachments

By Young Sup Lee, F. Nucera, Alexander F. Vakakis, Michael A. McFarland, Lawrence A. Bergman. 2009

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We study complex damped and undamped dynamics and targeted energy transfers (TETs) in systems of coupled oscillators, consisting of single-degree-of-freedom primary linear oscillators (LOs) with vibro-impact attachments, acting, in essence, as vibro-impact nonlinear energy sinks (VI NESs). First, the complicated dynamics of such VI systems is demonstrated by computing the VI periodic orbits of underlying Hamiltonian systems and depicting them in appropriate frequency–energy plots (FEPs). Then, VI damped transitions and distinct ways of passive TETs from the linear oscillators to the VI attachments for various parameter ranges and initial conditions are investigated. As in the case of smooth stiffness nonlinearity [Y. Lee, G. Kerschen, A. Vakakis, P. Panagopoulos, L. Bergman, D.M. McFarland, Complicated dynamics of a linear oscillator with a light, essentially nonlinear attachment, Physica D 204 (1–2) (2005) 41–69], both fundamental and subharmonic TET can be realized in the VI systems under consideration. It is found that the most efficient mechanism for VI TET is through the excitation of highly energetic VI impulsive orbits (IOs), i.e., of periodic or quasiperiodic orbits corresponding to zero initial conditions except for the initial velocities of the linear oscillators. In contrast to NESs with smooth essential nonlinearities considered in previous works, VI NESs are capable of passively absorbing and locally dissipating significant portions of the energies of the primary systems to which they are attached, at fast time scale. This renders such devices suitable for applications, like seismic mitigation, where dissipation of vibration energy in the early, highly energetic regime of the motion is a critical requirement.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

  1. Lawrence A. Bergman
  2. D. Michael McFarland
  3. Alexander F. Vakakis
  4. Young Sup Lee
  5. Oleg V. Gendelman
  6. Gaetan Kerschen
  7. Liqun Chen
  8. Hu Ding

In Computer Networks and Communications

  1. Alexander F. Vakakis
  2. Lawrence A. Bergman
  3. D. Michael McFarland
  4. Young Sup Lee
  5. Oleg V. Gendelman

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