Steady-State Dynamical Response of a Strongly Nonlinear System with Impact and Coulomb Friction Subjected to Gaussian White Noise Excitation

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The paper is devoted to the steady-state dynamical response analysis of a strongly nonlinear system with impact and Coulomb friction subjected to Gaussian white noise excitation.

The Zhuravlev nonsmooth transformation of the state variables combined with the Dirac delta function is utilized to simplify the original system to one without velocity jump.

Then, the steady-state probability density functions of the transformed system are derived in terms of the stochastic averaging method of energy envelope.

The effectiveness of the presented analytical procedure is verified by those from the Monte Carlo simulation based on the original system.

Effects of different restitution coefficients, amplitudes of friction, and noise intensities on the steady-state dynamical responses are investigated in detail.

Results show different intensities of Gaussian white noise can affect the peaks value of the probability density functions, whereas the variations of restitution coefficients and amplitudes of friction can induce the occurrence of stochastic P-bifurcation.