Bifurcation and chaos of an articulated loading platform with piecewise non-linear stiffness using the incremental harmonic balance method

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1087-1107

  Raghothama, A ^a   Narayanan, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Chaos; Incremental harmonic balancing; Initial condition map; Path following

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTERPOLATION; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

INCREMENTAL HARMONIC BALANCE METHOD; INTERPOLATED CELL MAPPING (ICM) METHOD; JACOBIAN MATRIX; PIECEWISE NONLINEAR STIFFNESS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

ARTICULATED LEG PLATFORM; BIFURCATION; CHAOS;

BIFURCATION; CHAOS THEORY; LOADING;

EID: 0034019858     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(99)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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