Bifurcation Trees of a Periodically Forced, Two-Degree-of-Freedom Oscillator With a Nonlinear Hardening Spring

Abstract

In this paper, analytical solutions of periodic motions in a periodically forced, damped, two-degree-of-freedom oscillator with a nonlinear hardening spring are obtained. The bifurcation trees of periodic motions are presented, and the stability and bifurcation of the periodic motion are determined through the eigenvalue analysis. Numerical simulations of stable period-1 and period-2 motions in the two-degree-of-freedom systems are presented, and the harmonic amplitude spectrums are presented to show the harmonic effects on periodic motions, and the accuracy of approximate analytical solutions can be estimated through the harmonic amplitudes.