ON THE EXISTENCE OF A STABLE PERIODIC SOLUTION OF TWO IMPACTING OSCILLATORS WITH DAMPING

Abstract

A system that consists of two impacting oscillators with damping has been considered in this paper. In the first part, a method of analytical determination of the existence of periodic solutions to the equations of motion and a method of analysis of the stability of these solutions are presented. The results of the computations carried out by these methods have been illustrated with a few examples. In the second part of the paper, the results of some numerical investigations are presented. The goal of these studies is to determine, in which regions of parameters characterizing the system, the periodic motion with one impact per period exists and is stable.