Extended Lindstedt–Poincare method for non-stationary resonances of dynamical systems with cubic nonlinearities

This paper presents the extended Lindstedt–Poincare (EL–P) method, which applies multiple time variables to treat non-stationary oscillations arising in dynamical systems with cubic nonlinearities due to the slowly varied excitation parameters. The method is applied extensively in research of non-stationary vibrations of clamped-hinged beams. Recognizing the aperiodic nature of non-stationary oscillations, the new formulation is presented by adding an additional, slow time scale beside time scales of the nonlinear system, which generally correspond to the incommensurate nonlinear frequencies of the response. Using this concept, a generalized approach of the study to the passage through fundamental, superharmonic and subharmonic resonances is presented in the paper. Effects of slowly varying excitation frequency and slowly varying excitation amplitude on the non-stationary oscillations are studied with the computation of deviations from the stationary response. Although the method is formulated for N-dof dynamical systems having weak cubic nonlinearities, it is applied for non-stationary vibrations, where two-mode shape approximation of damped and undamped clamped-hinged beam, respectively, is used and the simultaneous appearance of internal resonance is taken into account. Stability analysis of stationary solutions is performed and comparisons of stationary resonance curves by results obtained with the incremental harmonic balance (IHB) method show good agreement. The passage through the fundamental resonance of damped and undamped clamped-hinged beam, respectively, is investigated in detail.