Analytical Approximations for Dry Friction-Induced Stick–Slip and Pure-Slip Vibration Amplitudes of a Self-Excited Smooth and Discontinuous Oscillator

An analytical and numerical investigation into pure-slip and stick–slip oscillations induced by dry friction between a rigid mass linked by an inclined spring, modeled by the archetypal self-excited smooth and discontinuous (SD) oscillator, and the classical moving rigid belt, is presented. The friction force between surface contacts is modeled in the sense of Stribeck effect to formulate the friction model that the friction force first decreases and then increases with increasing relative sliding speed. Some perturbation methods are considered into this system for establishing the approximate analytical expressions of the occurring conditions, vibration amplitudes, and base frequencies of dry friction-induced stick–slip and pure-slip oscillations. For pure-slip oscillations, two different approaches are applied to analyze this self-excited SD oscillator. One of them is the homotopy perturbation method by constructing the nonlinear amplitude and frequency. Based on the multiple-scales homotopy perturbation method, a nonlinear equation for amplitude of the analytical approximate solution is constructed, which containing all parameters of problem. For stick–slip oscillations, the analytical approximations for amplitude and frequency are obtained by perturbation methods for finite time intervals of the stick phase, which is linked to the subsequent slip phase under the conditions of continuity and periodicity. The accuracy of analytical approximations is verified by the comparison between analytical approximations and numerical simulations. These analytical expressions are needed for gaining a deeper understanding of dry friction-induced pure-slip and stick–slip oscillations for the friction system with geometric nonlinearity.