-harmonic measurements and numerical simulations of nonlinear vibrations of a beam with non-ideal boundary conditions. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Elsevier, 2014, 19 (12) AbstractThis study presents a direct comparison of measured and predicted nonlinear vibrations of a clamped-clamped steel beam with non-ideal boundary conditions. A multi-harmonic comparison of simulations with measurements is performed in the vicinity of the primary resonance. First of all, a nonlinear analytical model of the beam is developed taking into account non-ideal boundary conditions. Three simulation methods are implemented to investigate the nonlinear behavior of the clamped-clamped beam. The method of multiple scales is used to compute an analytical expression of the frequency response which enables an easy updating of the model. Then, two numerical methods, the Harmonic Balance Method and a time-integration method with shooting algorithm, are employed and compared one with each other. The Harmonic Balance Method enables to simulate the vibrational stationary response of a nonlinear system projected on several harmonics. This study then proposes a method to compare numerical simulations with measurements of all these harmonics. A signal analysis tool is developed to extract the system harmonics' frequency responses from the temporal signal of a swept sine experiment. An evolutionary updating algorithm (Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy), coupled with highly selective filters is used to identify both fundamental frequency and harmonic amplitudes in the temporal signal, at every moment. This tool enables to extract the harmonic amplitudes of the output signal as well as the input signal. The input of the Harmonic Balance Method can then be either an ideal mono-harmonic signal or a multi-harmonic experimental signal. Finally, the present work focuses on the comparison of experimental and simulated results. From experimental output harmonics and numerical simulations, it is shown that it is possible to distinguish the nonlinearities of the clamped-clamped beam and the effect of the non-ideal input signal.

a b s t r a c tIn presence of friction, the frequency response function of a metallic assembly is strongly dependent on the excitation level. The local stick-slip behavior at the friction interfaces induces energy dissipation and local stiffness softening. These phenomena are studied both experimentally and numerically on a test structure named "Harmony".Concerning the numerical part, a classical complete methodology from the finite element and friction modeling to the prediction of the nonlinear vibrational response is implemented. The well-known Harmonic Balance Method with a specific condensation process on the nonlinear frictional elements is achieved.Also, vibration experiments are performed to validate not only the finite element model of the test structure named "Harmony" at low excitation levels but also to investigate the nonlinear behavior of the system on several excitation levels. A scanning laser vibrometer is used to measure the nonlinear behavior and the local stick-slip movement near the contacts.

This paper presents experiments and numerical simulations of a nonlinear clamped-clamped beam subjected to Harmonic excitations and epistemic uncertainties. These uncertainties are propagated in order to calculate the dynamic response of the nonlinear structure via a coupling between the Harmonic Balance Method (HBM) and a non-intrusive Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE). The system studied is a clampedclamped steel beam. First of all, increasing and decreasing swept sine experiments are performed in order to show the hardening effect in the vicinity of the primary resonance, and to extract the experimental multi-Harmonic frequency response of the structure. Secondly, the Harmonic Balance Method (HBM) is used alongside a continuation process to simulate the deterministic response of the nonlinear clamped-clamped beam. Good correlations were observed with the experiments, on the condition of updating the model for each excitation level. Finally, the effects of the epistemic uncertainties on the variability of the nonlinear response are investigated using a non-intrusive Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE) alongside the Harmonic Balance Method (HBM). A new methodology based on a phase criterion was developed in order to allow the PCE analysis to be performed despite the presence of bifurcations in the nonlinear response. The efficiency and robustness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated by comparison with Monte Carlo simulations. Then, the stochastic numerical results are shown to envelope the experimental responses for each excitation level without the need for model updating, validating the nonlinear stochastic methodology as a whole.