Chaotic Response and Stability of Rocking Rigid Objects

by Solomon C. S. Yim, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, United States,
Huan Lin, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Mechanics Computing in 1990's and Beyond

Abstract:

An analytical method and numerical results for predicting the existence of chaotic response of rocking rigid objects subjected to harmonic horizontal based excitation are presented. It is shown that the divergent nature of the rocking motion together with the transition nonlinearity associated with impact constitute the major cause of extreme sensitivity of the rocking response.

Subject Headings: Dynamic structural analysis | Structural dynamics | Motion (dynamics) | Dynamic response | Sensitivity analysis | Rigidity | Numerical methods

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