Stability Analysis of Discretized Structure Systems Based on the Complex
Network with Dynamics of Time-varying Stiffness
Abstract
The stability analysis of dynamic continuous structural system (DCSS)
has often been investigated by discretizing it into several
low-dimensional elements. The integrated results of all elements are
employed to describe the whole dynamic behavior of DCSS. In this paper,
DCSS is regarded as the complex dynamic network with the discretized
elements as the dynamic nodes and the time-varying stiffness as the
dynamic link relations between them, by which the DCSS can be regarded
to be the large-scale system composed of the node subsystem (NS) and
link subsystem (LS). Therefore, the dynamic model of DCSS is proposed as
the combination of dynamic equations of NS and LS, in which their state
variables are coupled mutually. By using the model, this paper
investigates the stability of DCSS. The research results show that the
state variables of NS and LS are uniformly ultimately bounded (UUB)
associated with the synthesized coupling terms in LS. Finally, the
simulation example is utilized to demonstrate the validity of method in
this paper.