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<journal-id>International Journal of Aerospace and Lightweight Structures</journal-id>
<publication_date>2013</publication_date>
<volume>2</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
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<doi>10.3850/S201042862013000586</doi>
<article-title>Lyapunov Exponents and Stochastic Stability of an Asymmetric Rotor Under Random Axial Loads</article-title>
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<author>Changqing Bai<sup>1</sup> and Hongyan Zhang<sup>2</sup></author>


<author-citation>Bai, Changqing; Zhang, Hongyan</author-citation>

<aff><sup>1</sup>State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Structure Strength and Vibration/School of Aerospace, Xi&#8217;an Jiaotong University, Xi&#8217;an 710049, China.</aff>

<email><a href="mailto:baichq@mail.xjtu.edu.cn">baichq@mail.xjtu.edu.cn</a></email>

<aff><sup>2</sup>School of Science, Chang&#8217;an University, Xi&#8217;an 710064.</aff>

<email><a href="mailto:Chinaahyan007@126.com">Chinaahyan007@126.com</a></email>


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<p>An asymmetric rotor in aerospace vehicle is usually subjected to random axial loads by
reason of the aerodynamic forces, hydrodynamic forces, preloads and so on. The modeling
of an asymmetric rotor subjected to stochastical axial loads is proposed as stochastically
excited and dissipated Hamiltonian systems. Two cases, (1) the asymmetric rotor with
the external damping and (2) the asymmetric rotor with the internal and external
damping, are studied with the aid of the stochastic averaging method for quasi-
integrable-Hamiltonian systems. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the almost
sure asymptotic stability of the asymmetric rotor are presented approximately and the
expression for the largest Lyapunov exponent of the averaged equations is formulated for
investigating the stochastic stability of the asymmetric rotor under random axial loads.
It is found that the ratio of the external damping coefficient to the rotor mass plays a key
stabilizing role in the almost sure stability when the external damping of the asymmetric
rotor is taken into account. Considering both the external and internal damping, the
effects of stochastical axial loads on the almost sure instability are significant. The
influence of the spectral density on the almost sure stability of the asymmetric rotor
with both the external and internal damping is reduced, which is different from that
with only the external damping. The effects of the flexural rigidity variation on the
almost sure instability of the asymmetric rotor with the external damping are more
considerable than that with both the external and internal damping.</p>

<p><italic>Keywords: Almost sure asymptotic stability, Asymmetric rotor, Random axial load.</italic></p>
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