Periodic solutions for a weakly dissipated hybrid system

We consider the motion of a stretched string coupled with a rigid body at one end and we study the existence of periodic solution when a periodic force f acts on the body. The main difficulty of the study is related to the weak dissipation that characterizes this hybrid system, which does not ensure a uniform decay rate of the energy. Under additional regularity conditions on f, we use a perturbation argument in order to prove the existence of a periodic solution. In the last part of the paper we present some numerical simulations based on the theoretical results.