bifurcations leading to chaos have been investigated in a number of one dimensional dynamical systems by varying the parameters incorporated within the systems. the property hyperbolicity has been studied in detail in each case which has significant characteristic behaviours for regular and chaotic evolutions. in the process, the calculations for invariant set have also been carried out. a bro...

Abstract: In this paper, a method for determination of refractive index in membrane of fuel cell on basis of three-longitudinal-mode laser heterodyne interferometer is presented. The optical path difference between the target and reference paths is fixed and phase shift is then calculated in terms of refractive index shift. The measurement accuracy of this system is limited by nonlinearity erro...

the static pull-in instability of beam-type micro-electromechanical systems is theoretically investigated. two engineering cases including cantilever and double cantilever micro-beam are considered. considering the mid-plane stretching as the source of the nonlinearity in the beam behavior, a nonlinear size-dependent euler-bernoulli beam model is used based on a modified couple stress theory, c...

the pseudo-elastic behavior of shape memory alloy (sma) truss and cantilever beam are investigated. brinson’s one-dimensional material model, which uses the twinned and detwinned martensite fractions separately as internal variables, is applied in the algorithm to establish the sma stress-strain characteristics. this material model also incorporates different young’s modulus for austenitic and ...

In this paper, a simple and effective numerical approach is presented on the basis of the Member Discrete Element Method (MDEM) to investigate static and dynamic responses of steel frames with semi-rigid joints. In the MDEM, structures are discretized into a set of finite rigid particles. The motion equation of each particle is solved by the central difference method and two adjacent arbitraril...

Secondary bending moment and geometric nonlinearity should be taken into account in pipe tower design. Taking the 110kV double-circuit narrow-base steel as an example, 110 kV is compared analyzed through structure design software general finite element ANSYS. The analysis results show that tube adopt a rigid-truss model, influence of secondary main material considered. effect accounts for about...

The buckling failure of thin-walled circular shells under local axial compression is common in engineering. This study uses the vector form intrinsic finite element (VFIFE) method to investigate behavior by introducing a multilinear hardening model, taking into account geometric and material nonlinearity. A analysis program based on VFIFE was developed verified comparison with experimental resu...

typically, two configurations are used for energy harvesting, with different advantages: piezoelastic and piezomagnetoelastic. best performance of piezoelastic configuration is limited to its narrow bandwidth around the resonance frequency. if the excitation frequency slightly deviates from the resonance frequency, the power-out is severely reduced. to overcome this, the piezomagnetoelastic has...