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Nonlinearly damped systems under simultaneous broad-band and harmonic excitations

✍ Scribed by G. O. Cai; Y. K. Lin


Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
841 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
0924-090X

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✦ Synopsis


The probability distribution ol the response of a nonlinearly damped system subjected to both broad-band and harmonic excitations is investigated, The broad-band excitation is additive, and the harmonic excitations can be either additive or multiplicative. The frequency of a harmonic excitation can be either near or far from a resonance frequency of the system. The stochastic averaging method is applied to obtain the It6 type stochastic differential equations for an averaged system described by a set of slowly varying variables, which are approximated as components of a Markov vector. Then, a procedure based on the concept of stationary potential is used to obtain the exact stationary probability density for a class of such averaged systems. For those systems not belonging to this class, approximate solutions are obtained using the method of weighted residuals. Application of the exact and approximate solution procedures are illustrated in two specific cases, and the results are compared with those obtained from Monte Carlo simulations.