Periodic Motions and Bifurcation Trees in a Buckled, Nonlinear Jeffcott Rotor System.

In this paper, analytical solutions for period-m motions in a buckled, nonlinear Jeffcott rotor system are obtained. This nonlinear Jeffcott rotor system with two-degrees of freedom is excited periodically from the rotor eccentricity. The analytical solutions of period-m solutions are developed, and the corresponding stability and bifurcation are also analyzed by eigenvalue analysis. Analytical bifurcation trees of period-1 motions to chaos are presented. The Hopf bifurcations of periodic motions cause not only the bifurcation tree but quasi-periodic motions. The quasi-periodic motion can be stable or unstable. Displacement orbits of periodic motions in the buckled, nonlinear Jeffcott rotor systems are illustrated, and harmonic amplitude spectrums are presented for harmonic effects on periodic motions of the nonlinear rotor. Coexisting periodic motions exist in such a buckled nonlinear Jeffcott rotor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]