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Dynamics 5/5 - Nonlinear analysis

 

 

A cubic nonlinearity has been introduced to model a nonlinear constitutive relation between polarization and applied voltage in the actuators; the equations of the motion (witha vanishing dissipation D) are then


The optimal energetic exchanges are obviously affected; the following figure show you how:

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Intensity of the nonlinearity


 

 

 

Place the mouse over the desidered level of nonlinearity to see the associated time evolution of the energies.