Jtam-A4.dvi JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS 51, 3, pp. 763-774, Warsaw 2013 INFLUENCE OF IDEAL AND NON-IDEAL EXCITATION SOURCES ON THE DYNAMICS OF A NONLINEAR VIBRO-IMPACT SYSTEM Fernando H. Moraes, Bento R. Pontes Jr, Marcos Silveira UNESP – São Paulo State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bauru, SP, Brazil e-mail: brpontes@feb.unesp.br José M. Balthazar UNESP – São Paulo State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bauru, SP, Brazil and UNESP – São Paulo StateUniversity, IGCE,Department of AppliedMathematics andComputation, RioClaro, SP, Brazil Reyolando M.L.R.F. Brasil Federal University of ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil The objective of the present work is to analyze the dynamics of a vibro-impact system consisting of two blocks of differentmass coupled by a springwith two stages. Two different types of excitation sources for the system are used in the analysis: the first is an ideal excitation in form of a harmonic force, and the second is a non-ideal excitation in form of a DC electric motor with limited power supply which has an unbalanced rotor. The control parameter for both situations is the excitation frequency of the system.The analysis includes time histories of displacements and velocities, phase portraits and diagrams of the displacement and frequency, used to show the Sommerfeld effect. For certain values of the parameters of the system, the motion is chaotic. The mathematical model of the system is used to obtain an insight to the global dynamics of the vibro-impact system. The model with a non-ideal excitation ismore realistic, complete and complex than themodel with the ideal excitation. Key words: vibro-impact system, limited power supply, non-ideal excitation, Sommerfeld effect 1. Introduction There are many applications in engineering where it is necessary the use impacts to induce vibrations in parts of the system in order to improve its performance or efficiency. The vibro- -impact mechanisms deserve as much attention as well as vibration absorbers, since they are present in a wide range of systems in mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering. Examples of applications are vibratory conveyors, drillingmachines, compactingmachines, forging hammers, impact hammers and powdermixers. Souza et al. (2008) considered vibro-impact systemswhich have many implementations in applied mechanics, ranging from drilling machinery and metal cutting processes to gearboxes. Moreover, from the point of view of dynamical systems, vibro- -impact systems exhibit a rich variety of phenomena, including chaotic motion. Pavlovskaia et al. (2001) conducted studies inavibro-impact systemof twodegrees of freedom and stated that although it seems simple, the dynamics of the system is very complex, ranging from periodic regimes to chaotic regimes. Ing et al. (2010) performed extensive experimental investigations of an impact oscillator with a one-sided elastic constraint. Different bifurcation scenarios have been shown for anumberof values of the excitation amplitude,with the excitation frequency as the bifurcation parameter. Lin and Ewins (1993) performed detailed numerical and experimental studies on chaotic vibration of mechanical systems with backlash. The backlash, in such systems, arise in engine- ering systems inwhich componentsmake intermittent contact due to the existence of clearances 764 F.H. Moraes et al. (or gaps). The forcing parameter range for the existence of chaotic regime and the influence of damping on the chaotic behavior were investigated. Amajor application of vibro-impactmechanisms can be seen in soil drillingmachines, or oil drilling, due to high costs involved in these types of projects, with a drill that may have more than kilometers of length and has multiple vibration modes (Wiercigroch et al., 2005). In this case, any kind of failure or maintenance is highly complex and expensive. Very often the drilling operation does not allow error. Aguiar (2010) conducted studies focused on oil drilling, where a condition of impact on the interaction between the drill and the rock is able to facilitate the penetration by spreading cracks in the hard rock to be drilled. The drilling of brittle materials requires a high rate of energy transfer to induce fracture of the material to be drilled. Themost suitable transfer of energy between the drill bit and the rock is by impact. The energy sources can be classified as ideal and non-ideal. The ideal energy sources do not consider that the acting forces on the system influence themotor dynamics, themodels that use the ideal excitation are simplified models that disregard important phenomena. Thus, a model that uses a non-ideal energy source is a significantly more complete and complex model. Kononenko (1969) described the first type of the non-ideal problem, the Sommerfeld effect, first seen in 1904. The Sommerfeld effect is due to the excitation source having limited power, usually called a non-ideal source. Nayfeh and Mook (1979) obtained analytical solutions for various non-ideal problems, which are composed of oscillators connected to this form of energy source. Dimentberg et al. (1997) analised the dynamics of an unbalanced shaft interacting with a limited power supply. Numerical and experimental solutions were obtained, and extensive parametric studies were performed on the Sommerfeld effect. The main influence of the non-ideal energy source on the system is notable as it passes through resonance. As the power supplied to the source increases in the region before resonance, the angular velocity of the energy source increases accordingly. Near the resonance, it appears that additional power supplied to the motor will only increase the amplitude of the oscillating system response,with little effect on the angular velocity of the energy source.As a consequence, the non-ideal oscillating system cannot pass through the resonance frequency of the system, or requires an intensive interaction between the vibrating system and the energy source to be able to do so (Balthazar et al., 2003; Zukovic and Cvetićanin, 2007, 2009). Souza et al. (2005a,b) investigated numerically the dynamical behavior of a non-idealmecha- nical system comprised of an oscillating mass body excited by an unbalanced rotor driven by a non-ideal motor, containing another mass which can oscillate back and forth, colliding with the walls of themain mass. Themotor and the unbalanced rotor represent a limited energy source. The dynamics of the oscillating system is largely influenced by the limited energy source. Warminski et al. (2001) investigated vibrations of parametrically and self-excited systems with ideal and non-ideal energy sources. Tsuchida et al. (2005) studied dynamics of a non-ideal systemwith two coupled oscillators. The analysis of the responses showed that for certain values of the parameters in the resonant regime, jump phenomena occur and chaos appears. Zukovic andCvetićanin (2007, 2009) analysed dynamics of a non-ideal system comprised of an oscillator connected with an unbalanced motor with clearance. The transient and steady state responses and stability were studied. The Summerfeld effect was detected, and chaotic regimes were found for a range of parameters. The occurrence of chaos in non-ideal systems is associated with the presence of non-linear terms, bifurcation points, instability regions and non-stationary regimes in the resonance region aswell as abrupt transitions in stiffness. Therefore, it is of great importance to study the system in those regions. ADC electric motor with limited power supply is considered as a non-ideal source of energy (Balthazar et al., 2005). The influence of the response of the flexible structure on theDCmotor Influence of ideal and non-ideal excitation sources ... 765 causes the appearance of a jump phenomenon and the Sommerfeld effect. The DCmotor has a family of static characteristic curves, each being associated with a torque constant and with an angular velocity constant of themotor. Themanner of regulation,more usual, is the variation of voltage applied to themotor terminals, which controls the angular velocity. The angular velocity affects the motor torque. This paper is organised as follows. Section 2 contains the mathematical models of the two vibro-impact systems used in this work, the first uses an ideal excitation source, the second uses a non-ideal excitation source. Section 3 contains the results from numerical simulations of both models, including time histories of displacements and velocities, phase portraits and diagrams of the displacement and frequency, used to show the Sommerfeld effect for the model with the non-ideal excitation. 2. Mathematical modeling Two cases are presented and analysed. The first (Case I) involves a vibro-impact model with the ideal excitation. The excitation source is a harmonic force (Fh) acting on block 1, and the control parameter is the excitation frequency (ω) related to this force. The second (Case II) involves a vibro-impact model with a non-ideal excitation. The excitation comes from a DC electric motor with limited power supply and an unbalanced rotor, and the control parameter is the angular velocity constant of the motor (Ω0). This model differs from the previous one only by the type of excitation source. 2.1. Model with ideal excitation The model with ideal excitation has two degrees of freedom and consists of two blocks (1 and 2) with mass m1 and m2, respectively, with m2 greater than m1. They are coupled by a spring with elastic stiffness coefficient k1 and a viscous damper with damping coefficient c. The displacements of blocks 1 and 2 are given by x1 and x2, respectively. The model is shown in Fig. 1 Fig. 1. Vibro-impact model with ideal excitation A harmonic force Fh provides a sinusoidal excitation on block 1. Block2 has an extension subject to the dry friction force against a surface, with dry friction coefficient µ. This friction generates a counter force to thedisplacement. In application todrillingmachines, thedry friction represents the interaction between the drill and the surface. A secondary spring (impact spring) exists between the two blocks, with a very high stiffness compared to the first spring.The elastic constant k2 of the second spring represents the stiffness of the material of block 2. Springs 1 and 2 form together a spring system with two stages of stiffness. As the elastic constant k2 is much greater than the elastic constant k1, there is an abrupt transition in the stiffness as block 1 makes or loses contact with the second spring (Fig. 2). The gap G is the distance between block 1 and the point of contact with the second spring.Whenever the 766 F.H. Moraes et al. Fig. 2. Two-stage stiffness characteristic of the spring system (Zukovic and Cvetićanin, 2009) relative displacement between the blocks is smaller than this gap, impact occurs. The system behaves periodically when there is no abrupt stiffness transition in the two-stage spring, when the relative displacement between the blocks is smaller than the gap G. Figure 2 shows the stiffness characteristic of the two-stage spring system (Zukovic and Cvetićanin, 2009): —while there is no impact on the system, meaning x2−x1