A new approximate solution technique for randomly excited non-linear oscillators-II

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Engineering and Computer Science

Department

Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

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Article

Publication/Event/Conference Title

International Journal of Non Linear Mechanics

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Version of Record

Abstract

The method of weighted residuals is applied to the reduced Fokker-Planck equation associated with a non-linear oscillator, which is subjected to both additive and multiplicative Gaussian white noise excitations. A set of constraints are deduced for obtaining an approximate stationary probability density for the system response. One of the constraints coincides with the previously proposed criterion of dissipation energy balancing, and the others are useful for calculating the equivalent conservative force. It is shown that these constraints imply certain relationships among certain statistical moments; their imposition guarantees that such moments computed from the approximate probability density satisfy the corresponding exact equations derived from the original equation of motion. Moreover, the well-known procedure of stochastic linearization and its improved version of partial linearization are shown to be special cases of this scheme, and they are less accurate since the approximations are not chosen from the entire set of the solution pool of generalized stationary potential. Applications of the scheme are illustrated by examples, and its accuracy is substantiated by Monte Carlo simulation results. © 1992.

First Page

969

Last Page

979

DOI

10.1016/0020-7462(92)90049-D

Publication Date

1-1-1992

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