Switching Mechanism and Complex Motions in an Extended Fermi-Acceleration Oscillator

Abstract

In this paper, an extended model of the Fermi-acceleration oscillator is presented to describe impacting chatters, grazing, and sticking between the particle (or bouncing ball) and piston. The sticking phenomenon in such a system is investigated for the first time. Even in the traditional Fermi-oscillator, such a sticking phenomenon still exists but one often ignored it. In this paper, the analytical conditions for the grazing and sticking phenomena between the particle and piston in the Fermi-acceleration oscillator are developed from the theory of discontinuous dynamical systems. Compared with existing studies, the four exact mappings are used to analyze the motion behaviors of the Fermi-oscillator instead of one or two mappings. Mapping structures formed by generic mappings are adopted for the analytical predictions of periodic motions in the Fermi-acceleration oscillator. Periodic and chaotic motions in such an oscillator are illustrated to show motion complexity and grazing and sticking mechanism. Once the masses of the ball and primary mass are in the same quantity level, the model presented in this paper will be very useful and significant. This idea can apply to a system possessing two independent oscillators with impact, such as gear transmission systems, bearing systems, and time-varying billiard systems.