Co-dimension-two grazing bifurcations in single-degree-of-freedom impact oscillators

Phanikrishna Thota, Xiaopeng Zhao, Harry Dankowicz

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Abstract

Grazing bifurcations in impact oscillators characterize the transition in asymptotic dynamics between impacting and nonimpacting motions. Several different grazing bifurcation scenarios under variations of a single system parameter have been previously documented in the literature. In the present paper, the transition between two characteristically different-co-dimension-one grazing bifurcation scenarios is found to be associated with the presence of certain co-dimension-two grazing bifurcation points and their unfolding in parameter space. The analysis investigates the distribution of such degenerate bifurcation points along the grazing bifurcation manifold in examples of single-degree-of-freedom oscillators. Unfoldings obtained with the discontinuity-mapping technique are used to explore the possible influence on the global dynamics of the smooth co-dimension-one bifurcations of the impacting dynamics that emanate from such co-dimension-two points. It is shown that attracting impacting motion may result from parameter variations through a co-dimension-two grazing bifurcation of an initially unstable limit cycle in a nonlinear micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) oscillator.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)328-335
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
Volume1
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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