Experimental and numerical investigations are carried out on an autoparametric system consisting of a composite pendulum attached to a harmonically base excited mass-spring subsystem. The dynamic behavior of such a mechanical system is governedby a set of coupled nonlinear equations with periodic parameters. Particular attention is paid to the dynamic behavior of the pendulum. The periodic doub...

Abstract The dynamics of a hysteretic relay oscillator with harmonic forcing is investigated. Periodic excitation the system results in periodic, quasi-periodic, chaotic and unbounded behavior. An explicit Poincaré map constructed an implicit constraint on switching time. stability fixed points corresponding to period-one solutions By varying parameters, we observed saddle-center pitchfork bifu...

In this paper, we report spring corner designs and driving waveforms to improve the reliability for a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) actuator. In order to prevent the stiction problems, no stopper or damping absorber is adopted. Therefore, an actuator could travel long distance by electromagnetic force without any object in moving path to absorb excess momentum. Due to long displacement...

Introduction: The NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) is conducting in-house research on linear alternators (LA’s) to assist in developing free-piston Stirling convertors for radioisotope space power systems. This abstract intends to summarize the existing and potential types of LA’s that may be used with Stirling power convertors. Many of the existing LA types have been tested at NASA GRC and wor...