Journal
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 2059-2075Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-018-4475-8
Keywords
Piecewise linearity; Dynamic behavior; Parametric variational principle; Periodicity; Precise integration method
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [11572076]
- 973 program [2014CB049000]
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An efficient method based on the parametric variational principle (PVP) is proposed for simulating the dynamic behavior of periodic structures with large number of piecewise linearity. The formulation for the gap-activated springs is proposed based on PVP, which can accurately determine the states of the gap-activated springs. Based on the periodicity of the system and the precise integration method, an efficient numerical time-integration method is developed to obtain the dynamic responses of the system. For this method, the matrix exponential of only one unit cell of the system is computed, which greatly improves the computational efficiency. Dynamic responses of a 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) piecewise linear system under harmonic excitations are given to demonstrate the validation of the proposed method. The piecewise linear dynamic system can exhibit very complex vibrational behavior, such as stable periodic motion, multi-periodic motion, quasi-periodic motion and chaotic motion, which can be successfully predicted by using bifurcation theory. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the proposed method can be used to efficiently determine dynamic responses of a periodic piecewise linear system with large number of DOFs and large number of gap-activated springs under harmonic excitations.
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