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Bifurcations and chaotic thresholds for the spring-pendulum oscillator with irrational and fractional nonlinear restoring forces

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Nonlinear dynamical systems with irrational and fractional nonlinear restoring forces often occur in both science and engineering, and always lead to a barrier for conventional nonlinear techniques. In this paper, we have investigated the global bifurcations and the chaos directly for a nonlinear system with irrational and fractional nonlinear restoring forces avoiding the conventional Taylor's expansion to retain the natural characteristics of the system. By introducing a particular dimensionless representation and a series of transformations, the two-degree-of-freedom system can be transformed into a perturbed Hamiltonian system. The extended Melnikov method is directly used to detect the chaotic threshold of the perturbed system theoretically, which overcomes the barrier caused by solving theoretical solution for the homoclinic orbit of the unperturbed system. The numerical simulations are carried out to demonstrate the complicated dynamics of the nonlinear spring-pendulum system, which show the efficiency of the criteria for chaotic motion in the system.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Physics, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, 050043, Shijiazhuang, China

    Ruilan Tian, Qiliang Wu & Wenjie Feng

  2. School of Engineering, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Yeping Xiong

  3. School of Traffic, Shijiazhuang Institute of Railway Technology, 050041, ShiJiaZhuang, China

    Xinwei Yang

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Tian, R., Wu, Q., Xiong, Y. et al. Bifurcations and chaotic thresholds for the spring-pendulum oscillator with irrational and fractional nonlinear restoring forces. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 129, 85 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14085-3

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