Regular and chaotic motion of a bush-shaft system with tribological processes (Q2500862)

Summary: We present the methods of analysis and modeling of contact bush-shaft systems exhibiting heat generation and wear due to friction. From the mathematical point of view, the considered problem is reduced to the analysis of ordinary differential equations governing the change of velocities of contacting bodies, and to an integral Volterra-type equation governing the contact pressure behavior. In the case where tribological processes are neglected, thresholds of chaos are detected using bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponents. In addition, analytical Melnikov method is applied to predict the chaos. It is shown, among the others, that tribological processes play a stabilizing role. The following theoretical background has been used in the analysis: perturbation methods, Melnikov techniques, Laplace transformations, theory of integral equations, and numerical analysis.