A Strategy for Magnifying Vibration in High-Energy Orbits of a Bistable Oscillator at Low Excitation Levels
WANG Guang-Qing1**, LIAO Wei-Hsin2
1School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018 2Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077
Abstract：This work focuses on how to maintain a high-energy orbit motion of a bistable oscillator when subjected to a low level excitation. An elastic magnifier (EM) positioned between the base and the bistable oscillator is used to magnify the base vibration displacement to significantly enhance the output characteristics of the bistable oscillator. The dimensionless electromechanical equations of the bistable oscillator with an EM are derived, and the effects of the mass and stiffness ratios between the EM and the bistable oscillator on the output displacement are studied. It is shown that the jump phenomenon occurs at a lower excitation level with increasing the mass and stiffness ratios. With the comparison of the displacement trajectories and the phase portraits obtained from experiments, it is validated that the bistable oscillator with an EM can effectively oscillate in a high-energy orbit and can generate a superior output vibration at a low excitation level as compared with the bistable oscillator without an EM.
. [J]. 中国物理快报, 2015, 32(06): 68503-068503.
WANG Guang-Qing, LIAO Wei-Hsin. A Strategy for Magnifying Vibration in High-Energy Orbits of a Bistable Oscillator at Low Excitation Levels. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2015, 32(06): 68503-068503.
2015, Vol. 32 
