Hysteresis models of dynamic mode atomic force microscopes: Analysis and identification via harmonic balance (Q840501)

The authors envisage two different constitutive responses in the interaction of impacting bodies, one for the approaching phase and the other one for the detaching phase. This model leads to a hysteretic behaviour, which accounts for the dissipative nature of the phenomenon. Eventually, the mathematical problem reduces to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation, whose linear part is investigated through a frequency analysis. The results are fairly consistent with the experimental data.