Abstract
Phase plane analysis of the nonlinear spring-mass equation arising in modeling vibrations of a lumped mass attached to a graphene sheet with a fixed end is presented. The nonlinear lumped-mass model takes into account the nonlinear behavior of the graphene by including the third-order elastic stiffness constant and the nonlinear electrostatic force. Standard pull-in voltages are computed. Graphic phase diagrams are used to demonstrate the conclusions. The nonlinear wave forms and the associated resonance frequencies are computed and presented graphically to demonstrate the effects of the nonlinear stiffness constant comparing with the corresponding linear model. The existence of periodic solutions of the model is proved analytically for physically admissible periodic solutions, and conditions for bifurcation points on a parameter associated with the third-order elastic stiffness constant are determined.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 81-90 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Applied and Computational Mechanics |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Funding
The authors thank the School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University for supporting capstone research projects like the one that produced the part of results in this paper and also thank the three anonymous reviewer’s valuable comments and suggestions which helped us to improve the presentations in the paper significantly. The first author is thankful for the support of the Nazarbayev University ORAU grant which helped completing this paper.
Keywords
- Electrostatic pull-in stability
- Graphene
- Lumped-mass model
- Nonlinear spring
- Periodic solutions
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Computational Mechanics
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
- Computational Mathematics
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