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Normal Mode Splitting in a Moving-Particles-Pumped Mechanical Oscillator: Clamped-Hinged Homogeneous Beam
1Research Fellow. State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Shanghai, 200092, China. sunzhi1@tongji.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The interaction of a mechanical oscillator with the operation actions and environment fields will give rise to the splitting of normal modes. In this study, we investigate the normal mode splitting behaviour of a moving-particles-pumped single-span clamped-hinged elastic homogeneous beam based on the proposed multi-octave modal parametric oscillation model. Numerical experiments show the entangled and squeezed oscillations of the phase-conjugated waves near the resonance tongues. Theoretical analysis predicts the occurrence of multiple simple resonances and the squeezing of the twin waves modal oscillation in the region with a low speed of movement for the studied system.
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