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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