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Through the looking-glass of the grazing bifurcation. / Ing, James; Kryzhevich, Sergey; Wiercigroch, Marian.
In: Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2013, p. 203-223.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Through the looking-glass of the grazing bifurcation
AU - Ing, James
AU - Kryzhevich, Sergey
AU - Wiercigroch, Marian
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - It is well-known for vibro-impact systems that the existence of a periodic solution with a low-velocity impact (so-called grazing) may yield complex behavior of the solutions. In this paper we show that unstable periodic motions which pass near the delimiter without touching it may give birth to chaotic behavior of nearby solutions. We demonstrate that the number of impacts over a period of forcing varies in a small neighborhood of such periodic motions. This allows us to use the technique of symbolic dynamics. It is shown that chaos may be observed in a two-sided neighborhood of grazing and this bifurcation manifests at least two distinct ways to a complex behavior. In the second part of the paper we study the robustness of this phenomenon. Particularly, we show that the same effect can be observed in "soft" models of impacts.
AB - It is well-known for vibro-impact systems that the existence of a periodic solution with a low-velocity impact (so-called grazing) may yield complex behavior of the solutions. In this paper we show that unstable periodic motions which pass near the delimiter without touching it may give birth to chaotic behavior of nearby solutions. We demonstrate that the number of impacts over a period of forcing varies in a small neighborhood of such periodic motions. This allows us to use the technique of symbolic dynamics. It is shown that chaos may be observed in a two-sided neighborhood of grazing and this bifurcation manifests at least two distinct ways to a complex behavior. In the second part of the paper we study the robustness of this phenomenon. Particularly, we show that the same effect can be observed in "soft" models of impacts.
KW - Grazing
KW - Homoclinic point
KW - structural stability
KW - models of impact
U2 - 10.5890/DNC.2013.08.001.
DO - 10.5890/DNC.2013.08.001.
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 203
EP - 223
JO - Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity
JF - Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity
SN - 2164-6376
IS - 3
ER -
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