Almost-sure stability of two-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems - Lyapunov exponent approach

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Doyle
1994 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 446-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sri Namachchivaya ◽  
H. J. Van Roessel ◽  
S. Talwar

In this paper, a perturbation approach is used to calculate the asymptotic growth rate of stochastically coupled two-degree-of-freedom systems. The noise is assumed to be white and of small intensity in order to calculate the explicit asymptotic formulas for the maximum Lyapunov exponent, The Lyapunov exponents and rotation number for each degree-of-freedom are obtained in the Appendix. The almost-sure stability or instability of the four-dimensional stochastic system depends on the sign of the maximum Lyapunov exponent. The results presented here match those presented by the first author and others using the method of stochastic averaging, where approximate Itoˆ equations in amplitudes and phase are obtained in the sense of weak convergence.


Author(s):  
R. J. Henderson ◽  
J. K. Raine

Parts 1 and 2 of this paper gave a design overview and described the dynamics of a prototype two-degree-of-freedom pneumatic suspension for an ambulance stretcher. This concluding part briefly reviews laboratory shaker table and ambulance road test performance of the suspension with passive pneumatic damping. The suspension system is found to offer compact low-cost isolation with lower natural frequencies than achieved in earlier mechanical systems.


Author(s):  
C.-H. Lamarque ◽  
O. Janin

Abstract The possibility of building a modal superposition formula for two-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems with impacts is investigated in this paper. This formula is obtained by following the usual procedure which consists in defining generalized frequencies, masses and modes. The example of two rigid bodies colliding underlines the efficiency, as well as the limitations, of the method.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1501-1510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divine Maalouf ◽  
Shunjie Li ◽  
Yannick Aoustin ◽  
Claude H. Moog

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