Stability and Periodic Motions for a System Coupled with an Encapsulated Nonsmooth Dynamic Vibration Absorber

Abstract

The dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) is widely used in engineering models with complex vibration modes. The research on the stability and periodic motions of the DVA model plays an important role in revealing its complex vibration modes and energy transfer. The aim of this paper is to study the stability and periodic motions of a two-degrees-of-freedom system coupled with an encapsulated nonsmooth dynamic vibration absorber under low-frequency forced excitation. Based on the slow–fast method, the model is transformed into a six-dimensional piecewise smooth system coupling two time scales. The existence and stability of the admissible equilibrium points for the model are discussed under different parameter conditions. Based on the first integrals, the Melnikov vector function of the nonsmooth dynamic vibration absorber model is calculated. The existence and number of periodic orbits bifurcated from a family of periodic orbits under different parameters are discussed. The phase diagram configuration of periodic orbits is given based on numerical simulation. The results obtained in this paper offer a new perspective for vibration analysis and parameter control for nonsmooth dynamic vibration absorbers.