Dynamics of a backlash chain

• Autor(es): Machado, J. A. Tenreiro
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3761
• Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Assunto(s): Backlash; Impacts; Nonlinear dynamics
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

This paper studies the dynamical properties of a system with distributed backlash and impact phenomena. This means that it is considered a chain of masses that interact with each other solely by means of backlash and impact phenomena. It is observed the emergence of non-linear phenomena resembling those encountered in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem.