O. Gendelman et al., Energy pumping in nonlinear mechanical oscillators: Part I - Dynamics of the underlying Hamiltonian systems, J APPL MECH, 68(1), 2001, pp. 34-41
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17
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Mechanical Engineering
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
The systems considered in this work are composed of weakly coupled, linear
and essentially nonlinear (nonlinearizable) components. In part I of this w
ork we present numerical evidence of energy pumping in coupled nonlinear me
chanical oscillators, i.e., of one-way (irreversible) ''channeling'' of ext
ernally imparted energy from the linear to the nonlinear part of the system
, provided that the energy is above a critical level. Clearly no such pheno
menon is possible in the linear system. To obtain a better understanding of
the energy pumping phenomenon we first analyze the dynamics of the underly
ing Hamiltonian system (corresponding to zero damping). First we reduce the
equations of motion on an isoenergetic manifold of the dynamical flow, and
then compute subharmonic orbits by employing nonsmooth transformation of c
oordinates which lead to nonlinear boundary value problems. It is conjectur
ed that a 1:1 stable subharmonic orbit of the underlying Hamiltonian system
is mainly responsible for the energy pumping phenomenon. This orbit cannot
be excited at sufficiently low energies. In Part II of this work the energ
y pumping phenomenon is further analyzed, and it is shown that it is caused
by transient resonance capture on a 1:1 resonance manifold of the system.