Auto-parametric resonance of flexible viscoelastic beams under interaction between longitudinal and transverse modes

For a system encompassing subsystems, dynamic modal interaction may experience unanticipated vibrations among subsystems that are excited indirectly. This paper focuses attention to a nonlinear auto-parametric resonance phenomenon of a flexible beam introduced via modal coupling of longitudinal forced resonance and transverse parametric resonance under longitudinal pulsatile excitation. The coupled resonance equations are first modeled based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory by incorporating nonlinear curvature, von Kármán's nonlinear strain-displacement relationship and the flexible beam model characterizing nonlinear inertia and displacement interaction. The Galerkin truncation-incremental harmonic balance method (IHBM) is then introduced to obtain both the stability boundary and amplitude-frequency bifurcation maps. Through the corresponding relationship between stability boundary and bifurcation diagram, the energy exchange between two modes is identified as well as the instability region and bifurcation topology can be tuned. It is found that the modal interaction greatly widens the instability region with at most two resonance bands of lateral resonance. By tuning structural and foundation damping, resonance can be controlled to occur only in one frequency band of the pair as desired. This research provides guidance to design broadband energy harvesting or vibration suppression equipment with tunable working frequency band for using the strategy of auto-parametric resonance. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd