Periodic and non-periodic oscillations of a class of hysteretic two degree of freedom systems (Q1367150)

The oscillator includes the elastoplastic Ramberg-Osgood model, the restoring forces are based on Masing rules. The degree of hysteresis, the yielding limit and the initial stiffness can be varied independently. The authors introduce a vector field operating over a high-dimensional manifold. The phase space is based on velocity, hysteretic force, displacement and two internal variables for each element. First, a one degree of freedom oscillator is considered, and attracting basins are computed. For low hysteresis, a rich variety of responses is possible: resonant and non-resonant 1T periodic motions, 5T and 7T subharmonic responses exist with large attracting basins. For full hysteresis, there exists only 1T periodic response. Then the authors examine a two degree of freedom system being in an internal 1:3 resonance and study 1T periodic response (which can be highly complex) by using the technique of return maps and supposing the full hysteresis. The frequency response curves of velocity are evaluated by a path-following procedure and a fixed point evaluating algorithm. It is shown that modification of the response as a consequence of coupling is strong around the first mode resonance. The singularity of the vector field is taken into consideration, and some properties of the nonperiodic response are simulated numerically. For a high intensity of the excitation, a quasi-periodic motion starts to bifurcate in the combined response region \(2\omega\approx \omega_1+ \omega_2\). For the quasi-periodic motion -- due to the frequency locking -- the authors observe windows of 2T periodic motion. Supposing reduced hysteresis, multivaluedness appears, then for low frequencies and increasing intensity of excitation disappears. Numerous diagrams show the calculated phenomena.