Stability analysis of a rotor-AMB system with time varying stiffness

A rotor-active magnetic bearing (AM B) system subjected to a periodically time-varying stiffness with quadratic and cubic nonlinear under tuned, and external excitation is studied. The method of multiple scales is applied to analyze the response of two modes of a rotor-AM B system near the simultaneous combined and sub-harmonic resonance. The stability of the steady-state solution for that resonance is determined and studied applying Rung-Kutta fourth order method. It is shown that the system exhibits many typical nonlinear behaviors, including multiple-valued solutions, jump phenomenon, hardening and softening nonlinear and chaos in the second mode of the system. The effects of the different parameters on the steady-state solutions are investigated and discussed. (C) 2012 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.