TY - JOUR
T1 - An experimental study into the bilinear oscillator close to grazing
AU - Ing, James
AU - Pavlovskaia, Ekaterina
AU - Wiercigroch, Marian
PY - 2008/2/1
Y1 - 2008/2/1
N2 - A linear oscillator undergoing impact with a secondary support is studied experimentally. Smooth as well as nonsmooth bifurcations are observed. The bifurcations are explained with help from simulations based on mapping solutions between locally smooth subspaces. Experimental stability studies are also presented, justifying the normal form maps used to show the response close to grazing for systems with and without prestress of the secondary spring. The high degree of correspondence lends support to the modelling approach, and the highly complicated response justifies continued study of this system.
AB - A linear oscillator undergoing impact with a secondary support is studied experimentally. Smooth as well as nonsmooth bifurcations are observed. The bifurcations are explained with help from simulations based on mapping solutions between locally smooth subspaces. Experimental stability studies are also presented, justifying the normal form maps used to show the response close to grazing for systems with and without prestress of the secondary spring. The high degree of correspondence lends support to the modelling approach, and the highly complicated response justifies continued study of this system.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/96/1/012119
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/96/1/012119
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:40549127112
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 96
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012119
ER -