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Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Critical thresholds for mode-coupling instability in viscoelastic sliding contactsMode-coupling instabilities are known to trigger self-excited vibrations in sliding contacts. Here, the conditions for mode-coupling (or “flutter”) instability in the contact between a spherical oscillator and a moving viscoelastic substrate are studied. The work extends the classical 2-Degrees-Of-Freedom conveyor belt model and accounts for viscoelastic dissipation in the substrate, adhesive friction at the interface and nonlinear normal contact stiffness as derived from numerical simulations based on a boundary element method capable of accounting for linear viscoelastic effects. The linear stability boundaries are analytically estimated in the limits of very low and very high substrate velocity, while in the intermediate range of velocity the eigenvalue problem is solved numerically. It is shown how the system stability depends on externally imposed parameters, such as the substrate velocity and the normal load applied, and on contact parameters such as the interfacial shear strength τ and the viscoelastic friction coefficient. In particular, for a given substrate velocity, there exist a critical shear strength τ,crit and normal load Fn,crit, which trigger mode-coupling instability: for shear stresses larger than τ,crit or normal load smaller than Fn,crit, self-excited vibrations have to be expected.Publicationtype: Journal ArticleScopus© Citations 10 98 140 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Self-excited vibrations due to viscoelastic interactions(2020-10); ; Self-excited vibrations represent a big concern in engineering, particularly in automotive, railway and aeronautic industry. Many lumped models have been proposed over the years to analyze the stability of such systems. Among the instability mechanisms a falling characteristic of the friction law and mode coupling have been shown to give friction-excited oscillations. The mass-on-moving-belt system has been studied extensively in Literature, very often adopting a prescribed form of the friction law and linearizing the contact stiffness. Instead, in this work, the case of a spherical oscillator excited by a moving viscoelastic halfspace is considered. The friction law and the nonlinear normal contact stiffness have been computed via boundary element numerical simulations for varying substrate velocity and indentation depth, then they have been adopted in time-marching dynamical numerical simulations. It is shown that the horizontal and vertical dynamics of the oscillator are tightly connected each other through the viscoelastic substrate. Furthermore, for certain normal forces/substrate velocity, the system has multiple stable solutions, which may include lift-off of the oscillator, which are selected based solely on the system initial conditions.Publicationtype: Journal Article80