...Matthew B. Greytak; Franz S. Hover First-excursion times have been developed extensively in the literature for oscillators; one major application is structural dynamics of buildings. Using the fact that most closed-loop systems operate with a moderate to high damping ratio, we have derived a new...

... of nonlinear MEMS devices and can easily be modified to analyze other planar oscillators of different configurations. Effect of flexure-beam width on the dynamic response of a two-beam device with 100 × 4 ( ± 0.2 ) × 2 μ m flexure beams for ξ = 0.2 % , V dr = 10...

...J. C. Chedjou; L. K. Kana; I. Moussa; K. Kyamakya; A. Laurent This paper studies the dynamics of a self-excited oscillator with two external periodic forces. Both the nonresonant and resonant states of the oscillator are considered. The hysteresis boundaries are derived in terms of the system’s...

...Joaquin Alvarez; Iouri Orlov; Leonardo Acho An invariance principle for a class of ordinary differential equations with discontinuous right-hand side is developed. Based on this principle, asymptotic stability of one-degree-of-freedom mechanical oscillators with Coulomb friction is studied...