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The paper analyzes questions related to the construction of dynamic stability boundaries of elastic systems subjected to stochastic parametric excitation. It is supposed that the parametric action is a combination of a deterministic static component and a stochastic fluctuating component. The fluctuating component is taken to be a stationary ergodic process. The stability boundaries are built in the region of combination resonance using the stochastic averaging method and a probabilistic approach due to Khasminskii. In this connection, the stochastic averaging method based on the Stratonovich-Khasminskii theory is used. The probabilistic approach consists in using explicit asymptotic expressions for the largest Lyapunov exponent, from which the asymptotic stability boundaries are determined. As an application, the stability of a simply supported thin-walled bar subjected to a stochastically varying longitudinal load is investigated
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Published in Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 128–138, December 2005.
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Labou, M. On the stability of systems with stochastically variable parameters. Int Appl Mech 41, 1437–1446 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-006-0053-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-006-0053-8