Three-to-one internal resonances in hinged-clamped beams (Q1362155)

The authors investigate the nonlinear planar response of a hinged-clamped beam to a primary excitation of either its first mode or its second mode. The analysis accounts for mid-plane stretching, a static axial load, a restraining spring at one end, and modal damping. For a range of axial loads, the second natural frequency is approximately three times the first natural frequency, and hence the first and second modes may interact due to a three-to-one internal resonance. The method of multiple scales is used to solve the governing nonlinear partial differential equation and derive two sets of four first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations describing the modulation of the amplitudes and phases of the first two modes in the case of primary resonance of either the first or the second mode. Periodic motions and periodically and chaotically modulated motions of the beam are determined by investigating the equilibrium and dynamic solutions of the modulation equations.