The dynamic motion of a parametrically excited microbeam-string affected by nonlinear damping is considered asymptotically and numerically. It is assumed that the geometrically nonlinear beam-string, subject to only modulated alternating current voltage, is closer to one of the electrodes, thus resulting in an asymmetric dual gap configuration. A consequence of these novel assumptions is a combined parametric and hard excitation in the derived continuum-based model that incorporates both linear viscous and nonlinear viscoelastic damping terms. To understand how these assumptions influence the beam's performance, the conditions that lead to both principal parametric resonance and a three-to-one internal resonance are investigated. Such conditions are derived analytically from a reduced-order nonlinear model for the first three modes of the microbeam-string using the asymptotic multiple-scales method which requires reconstitution of the slow-scale evolution equations to deduce an approximate spatio-temporal solution. The response is investigated analytically and numerically and reveals a bifurcation structure that includes coexisting in-phase and out-of-phase solutions, Hopf bifurcations, and conditions for the loss of orbital stability culminating with nonstationary quasi-periodic solutions and chaotic strange attractors.
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August 2017
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Parametric Excitation of a Microbeam-String With Asymmetric Electrodes: Multimode Dynamics and the Effect of Nonlinear Damping
Oded Gottlieb
Oded Gottlieb
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa 32000, Israel
e-mail: oded@technion.ac.il
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa 32000, Israel
e-mail: oded@technion.ac.il
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Karin Mora
Oded Gottlieb
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa 32000, Israel
e-mail: oded@technion.ac.il
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa 32000, Israel
e-mail: oded@technion.ac.il
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Contributed by the Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND ACOUSTICS. Manuscript received November 30, 2016; final manuscript received April 27, 2017; published online May 30, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Steven W. Shaw.
J. Vib. Acoust. Aug 2017, 139(4): 040903 (9 pages)
Published Online: May 30, 2017
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Received:
November 30, 2016
Revised:
April 27, 2017
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Mora, K., and Gottlieb, O. (May 30, 2017). "Parametric Excitation of a Microbeam-String With Asymmetric Electrodes: Multimode Dynamics and the Effect of Nonlinear Damping." ASME. J. Vib. Acoust. August 2017; 139(4): 040903. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4036632
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