A driven anharmonic oscillator is described which exhibits period doubling and chaotic behavior. The measured behavior of the oscillator under successive period doublings is in quantitative agreement with a recent theory which describes the behavior of nonlinear systems. Both the scalirg and the convergence rate predicted by the theory are verified by the experiment. The oscillator also exhibit...

Details of electronic circuitry to define Poincaré planes in the phase space of nonlinear electronic systems are presented. It allows an experimental setup to capture data at every moment the system’s orbit crosses the Poincaré plane. We illustrate how the circuit is used in an experimental setup that allows us (i) to reconstruct bifurcation cascades and to disclose induced first return chaotic...

Nonlinear elastic effects play an important role in the dynamics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). A Duffing oscillator is widely used as an archetypical model of mechanical resonators with nonlinear elastic behavior. In contrast, nonlinear dissipation effects in micromechanical oscillators are often overlooked. In this work, we consider a doubly clamped micromechanical beam oscillator,...

Title of dissertation: NOISE-INFLUENCED DYNAMICS OF NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS J. Edmon Perkins, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Balakumar Balachandran Department of Mechanical Engineering Noise is usually considered detrimental to the performance of a system and the effects of noise are usually mitigated through design and/or control. In this dissertation, noise-influ...