LARGEST LYAPUNOV EXPONENT AND ALMOST CERTAIN STABILITY ANALYSIS OF SLENDER BEAMS UNDER A LARGE LINEAR MOTION OF BASEMENT SUBJECT TO NARROWBAND PARAMETRIC EXCITATION

The first order approximate solutions of a set of non-liner differential equations, which is established by using Kaneʹs method and governs the planar motion of beams under a large linear motion of basement, are systematically derived via the method of multiple scales. The non-linear dynamic behaviors of a simply supported beam subject to narrowband random parametric excitation, in which either the principal parametric resonance of its first mode or a combination parametric resonance of the additive type of its first two modes with or without 3:1 internal resonance between the first two modes is taken into consideration, are analyzed in detail. The largest Lyapunov exponent is numerically obtained to determine the almost certain stability or instability of the trivial response of the system and the validity of the stability is verified by direct numerical integration of the equation of motion of the system.