Lydon Joseph, Theocharis Georgios, Daraio Chiara
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015 Feb;91(2):023208. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.023208. Epub 2015 Feb 19.
In the present work we test experimentally and compute numerically the stability and dynamics of harmonically driven monoatomic granular chains composed of an increasing number of particles N(N=1-50). In particular, we investigate the inherent effects of dissipation and finite size on the evolution of bifurcation instabilities in the statically compressed case. The findings of the study suggest that the nonlinear bifurcation phenomena, which arise due to finite size, can be useful for efficient energy transfer away from the drive frequency in transmitted waves.
