A Detailed Study of the Low-Frequency Periodic Behavior of a Dry Friction Oscillator (Q4388532)

The examined oscillator has one degree of freedom. Linear viscous damping is taken into consideration. Two dry friction models are used. Their nondimensional models \(f_{A,B}\) are: \(f_A(\dot\theta) =f\text{sgn} \dot \theta\), \(\dot \theta\neq 0\) slip occurs, \[ -\alpha f\leq f_A (\dot\theta) \leq\alpha f,\;\dot \theta=0\text{ stick occurs } \] \[ f_B(\dot \theta)= \begin{cases} f \text{sgn} (\dot\theta) \quad & | \dot\theta |>\dot \theta_c\text{ slip occurs}; \\ 2 \hbar\dot \theta \quad & | \dot\theta |< \dot\theta_c \text{ stick occurs}; \end{cases} \] where \(\theta\) is a nondimensional coordinate, \(f,\alpha, \hbar,\dot \theta_c\) are parameters. Two iterative piecewise linear solution techniques are shown, and comparison is made between the properties of these techniques. By model \(A\) to handle the stick region a force balance equation must be included at the end of each stick cycle. Several special cases and stability results are shown, for example the so-called ``two-stop'' motion by model \(A\), then the existence of a boundary between stick-slip and ``permanent-stick'', the so-called hesitation. Experimental results indicate good agreement with the analytic ones.