Stochastic Response of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Systems with Time-Delayed Feedback Control Force and Bounded Noise Excitation

Abstract

In this paper, an approximate analytical procedure is proposed to derive the stochastic response of nonlinear viscoelastic systems with time-delayed feedback control force and bounded noise excitation. The viscoelastic force and the time-delayed control force depend on the past histories of the state variables, which will result in infinite-dimensional problem in theoretical analysis. To resolve these difficulties, the viscoelastic force and the time-delayed control force are approximated by the current state variable based on the quasi-periodic behavior of the systematic response. Then, by using the stochastic averaging method for strongly nonlinear systems subjected to bounded noise excitation, an averaged equation for the equivalent system is derived. The Fokker–Plank–Kolmogorov (FPK) equation of the associated averaged equation is solved to derive the stochastic response of the equivalent system. Finally, two typical nonlinear viscoelastic oscillators are worked out and the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed procedure. By utilizing the quasi-periodic behavior and stochastic averaging method of the strongly nonlinear system, the time-delayed control force and the viscoelastic terms can be simplified with equivalent damping force and equivalent restoring force and the resonant response under bounded noise excitation can be obtained analytically. The numerical results showed the accuracy of the proposed method.