Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics: Recent submissions
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Dynamic Behavior Analysis of a Rotor System Based on a Nonlinear Labyrinth-Seal Forces Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Taking the flow field features of labyrinth seal into consideration, the fluid force generated from the seal cavity, which is spatially separated into two regions, is modeled with the perturbation method. The rotor orbit ... -
A New Look at the Fractional Initial Value Problem: The Aberration Phenomenon
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A typical phenomenon of the fractional order system is presented to describe the initial value problem from a brand-new perspective in this paper. Several simulation examples are given to introduce the named aberration ... -
Chaotic Behavior and Feedback Control of Magnetorheological Suspension System With Fractional-Order Derivative
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The fractional differential equations of the single-degree-of-freedom (DOF) quarter vehicle with a magnetorheological (MR) suspension system under the excitation of sine are established, and the numerical solution is ... -
A Spectral Numerical Method for Solving Distributed-Order Fractional Initial Value Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this paper, we construct and analyze a Legendre spectral-collocation method for the numerical solution of distributed-order fractional initial value problems. We first introduce three-term recurrence relations for the ... -
Synchronization of Quadratic Chaotic Systems Based on Simultaneous Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)To synchronize quadratic chaotic systems, a synchronization scheme based on simultaneous estimation of nonlinear dynamics (SEND) is presented in this paper. To estimate quadratic terms, a compensator including Jacobian ... -
On the Weak Signal Amplification by Twice Sampling Vibrational Resonance Method in Fractional Duffing Oscillators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In our former work developed by Yang et al. (2017, “Enhancing the Weak Signal With Arbitrary High-Frequency by Vibrational Resonance in Fractional-Order Duffing Oscillators,” ASME J. Comput. Nonlinear Dyn., 12(5), p. ... -
Neimark-Sacker Bifurcations Near Degenerate Grazing Point in a Two Degree-of-Freedom Impact Oscillator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Saddle-node or period-doubling bifurcations of the near-grazing impact periodic motions have been extensively studied in the impact oscillators, but the near-grazing Neimark-Sacker bifurcations have not been discussed yet. ... -
Equivalence of Initialized Fractional Integrals and the Diffusive Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Fractional calculus is viewed as a novel and powerful tool to describe the stress and strain relations in viscoelastic materials. Consequently, the motions of engineering structures incorporated with viscoelastic dampers ... -
Physics-Based Deformable Tire–Soil Interaction Model for Off-Road Mobility Simulation and Experimental Validation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A physics-based deformable tire–soil interaction simulation capability that can be fully integrated into the monolithic multibody dynamics computer algorithm is developed by extending a deformable tire model based on the ... -
Robust Stability of Switched Interconnected Systems With Time-Varying Delays
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The problem of robust exponential stability for a class of switched nonlinear dynamical systems with uncertainties and time-varying delays is investigated. On the assumption that each isolated subsystem of the interconnected ... -
Effects of Externally Mounted Store on the Nonlinear Response of Slender Wings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The nonlinear characteristics of slender wings have been studied for many years, and the influences of the geometric structural nonlinearity on the postflutter responses of the wing have been received significant attention. ... -
Quenching Phenomenon of a Time-Fractional Kawarada Equation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this paper, we introduce a class of time-fractional diffusion model with singular source term. The derivative employed in this model is defined in the Caputo sense to fit the conventional initial condition. With assistance ... -
Global Sensitivity Analysis for Vehicle–Track Interactions: Special Attention on Track Irregularities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The dynamic vehicle–track interactions are complex processes due to the highly nonlinear terms and spatially varying excitations in vehicle design, track maintenance, dynamic prediction, etc. Therefore, it is of importance ... -
A Comparative Study of the Dissipative Contact Force Models for Collision Under External Spring Forces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The dissipative contact force model plays a key role in predicting the response of multibody mechanical systems. Contact-impact event can frequently take place in multibody systems and the impact pair is often affected by ... -
Parallel Co-Simulation Method for Railway Vehicle-Track Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper introduces a new parallel co-simulation method to study vehicle-track dynamic interactions. The new method uses the transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) to enable co-simulation between a ... -
Identification of Uncertain Incommensurate Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems Using an Improved Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper is concerned with a significant issue in the research of nonlinear science, i.e., parameter identification of uncertain incommensurate fractional-order chaotic systems, which can be essentially formulated as a ... -
Component-Centric Reduced Order Modeling for the Prediction of the Nonlinear Geometric Response of a Part of a Stiffened Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Component-centric reduced order models (ROMs) have recently been developed in the context of linear structural dynamics. They lead to an accurate prediction of the response of a part of structure (referred to as the β ... -
Complete and Simplified Models for Estimating Vibration Instability of Cyclically Symmetric Ring Structures: Comparison and Verification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In-plane vibration of cyclically symmetric ring structures is examined with emphasis on the comparison of instabilities estimated by complete and simplified models. The aim of this paper is to understand under what conditions ... -
Rotations of Pendulum When Its Pivot Oscillates Chaotically
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper investigates the possibility of energy generation via pendulum rotations when the source of vertical excitation is chaotic in nature. The investigations are conducted using an additional height-adjustable mechanism ... -
Analysis of Parametric Resonances in In-Plane Vibrations of Electrostrictive Hyperelastic Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Electrostriction is a recent actuation mechanism which is being explored for a variety of new micro- and millimeter scale devices along with macroscale applications such as artificial muscles. The general characteristics ...