Further Reduction of Normal Forms for High Dimensional Nonlinear Systems and Application to a Composite Laminated Piezoelectric Plate

Abstract

Normal form theory is robust and useful for direct bifurcation and stability analysis of nonlinear differential equations in real engineering problems. This paper develops a new computation method for obtaining a significant refinement of the normal forms for high dimensional nonlinear systems. In the theoretical model for the nonlinear oscillation of a composite laminated piezoelectric plate, the computation method is applied to compute the coefficients of the normal forms for the case of one double zero and a pair of pure imaginary eigenvalues. The algorithm is implemented in Maple V and the normal forms of the averaged equations and their coefficients for nonlinear oscillations of the composite laminated piezoelectric plate under combined parametric and transverse excitations are calculated.