Bifurcation analysis of a piecewise-linear impact oscillator with drift

We investigate the complex bifurcation scenarios occurring in the dynamic response of a piecewise-linear impact oscillator with drift, which is able to describe qualitatively the behaviour of impact drilling systems. This system has been extensively studied by numerical and analytical methods in the past, but its intricate bifurcation structure has largely remained unknown. For the bifurcation analysis, we use the computational package TC-HAT, a toolbox of AUTO 97 for numerical continuation and bifurcation detection of periodic orbits of non-smooth dynamical systems (Thota and Dankowicz, SIAM J Appl Dyn Syst 7(4):1283–322, 2008) The study reveals the presence of co-dimension-1 and -2 bifurcations, including fold, period-doubling, grazing, flip-grazing, fold-grazing and double grazing bifurcations of limit cycles, as well as hysteretic effects and chaotic behaviour. Special attention is given to the study of the J. Páez Chávez (B) Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador e-mail: [email protected] J. Páez Chávez · E. Pavlovskaia · M. Wiercigroch Centre for Applied Dynamics Research, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK e-mail: [email protected] M. Wiercigroch e-mail: [email protected] rate of drift, and how it is affected by the control parameters.