Márcio José Horta Dantas

A comment on a nonideal centrifugal vibrator machine behavior with soft and hard springs

This paper concerns a type of rotating machine (centrifugal vibrator), which is supported on a nonlinear spring. This is a nonideal kind of mechanical system. The goal of the present work is to show the striking differences between the cases where we take into account soft and hard spring types. For soft spring, we prove the existence of homoclinic chaos. By using the Melnikovs Method, we show the existence of an interval with the following property: if a certain parameter belongs to this interval, then we have chaotic behavior; otherwise, this does not happen. Furthermore, if we use an appropriate damping coefficient, the chaotic behavior can be avoided. For hard spring, we prove the existence of Hopfs Bifurcation, by using reduction to Center Manifolds and the Bezout Theorem (a classical result about algebraic plane curves).

On the appearance of a Hopf bifurcation in a non-ideal mechanical problem

Abstract In this paper we studied a non-ideal system with two degrees of freedom consisting of a dumped nonlinear oscillator coupled to a rotatory part. We investigated the stability of the equilibrium point of the system and we obtain, in the critical case, sufficient conditions in order to obtain an appropriate Normal Form. From this, we get conditions for the appearance of Hopf Bifurcation when the difference between the driving torque and the resisting torque is small. It was necessary to use the Bezout Theorem, a classical result of Algebraic Geometry, in the obtaining of the foregoing results.

ON A NONIDEAL (MRD) DAMPER-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ABSORBER DYNAMICS

In this paper, we have investigated the nonlinear dynamic behavior of an electro-mechanical vibration absorber (NEVA), taking into account a modified (MR) Damper (MRD), in its mathematical model, which was excited by a nonideal motor (NIS), by using perturbation analysis and numerical simulations.

General Results of Existence and Asymptotic Stability for a class of Electromechanical Systems

In this work a class of time-dependent electromechanical system is investigated. From general results on existence and stability of periodic orbits, the dynamics of this system can be approached in a mathematically rigorous way. These results generalize previous ones obtained for autonomous electromechanical systems.

Quenching in a non-ideal mechanical system and the Averaging Method

In this paper, for the first time, a quenching result in a non-ideal system is rigorously obtained. In order to do this a new mechanical hypothesis is assumed, it means that the moment of inertia of the rotating parts of the energy source is big. From this is possible to use the Averaging Method.

On the Boundary Value Problems of Linear Elasticity with Constraints

In this paper classic boundary value problems of linear elastostatics are studied. Displacement, mixed and traction type boundary conditions are considered for an internally constrained, non-homogeneous, anisotropic material. Existence of solutions and constraint stability results are presented.