Infinite Set of Resonances in the Linear Damped Oscillator Subject to Harmonic Forcing with Non-standard Frequency Modulation
Abstract
It is shown that harmonic signals incorporating a type of weak non-standard frequency modulation (wNSFM) have interesting spectral properties, namely, time-dependent bandwidths that become increasingly broader with increasing time. As such, they represent a class of signals with frequency-time coupling in their spectra. Specifically, the weakly damped oscillator exhibits always two transient resonance captures involving two distinct harmonics possessing relatively high amplitudes over finite time intervals, while the overall response decays as t−1/2 as t→∞. Considering the undamped oscillator, it possesses two types of resonances, referred to as simple and non-simple resonances. Simple resonances correspond to finite-amplitude steady-state responses caused by two sustained resonance captures, in the form of two distinct modulated quasi-periodic responses, which, however are "activated" at different time instances. The necessary and sufficient conditions for non-simple resonances are given in the form of a theorem which predicts the existence of resonant harmonics and specifies the special phase conditions that the resonant harmonics must satisfy for constructive interference; the resulting undamped non-simple resonance grows unboundedly as t−1/2 as t→∞, in contrast to the classical resonance growth of the linear resonator with unmodulated harmonic excitation whose response grows as t as t→∞. These resonant responses are persistent to changes in the parameters of the wNSFM. Our results reveal interesting infinite sets of resonances in linear SDOF resonators under frequency-modulated excitations.
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BibTeX
@misc{gendelman2026infinite,
title = {{Infinite Set of Resonances in the Linear Damped Oscillator Subject to Harmonic Forcing with Non-standard Frequency Modulation}},
author = {Oleg V. Gendelman and Luis M. Baldelomar Pinto and Lawrence A. Bergman and Alexander F. Vakakis},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.05547},
eprint = {2607.05547},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05547},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Infinite Set of Resonances in the Linear Damped Oscillator Subject to Harmonic Forcing with Non-standard Frequency Modulation
AU - Oleg V. Gendelman
AU - Luis M. Baldelomar Pinto
AU - Lawrence A. Bergman
AU - Alexander F. Vakakis
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/22
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.05547
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05547
AB - It is shown that harmonic signals incorporating a type of weak non-standard frequency modulation (wNSFM) have interesting spectral properties, namely, time-dependent bandwidths that become increasingly broader with increasing time. As such, they represent a class of signals with frequency-time coupling in their spectra. Specifically, the weakly damped oscillator exhibits always two transient resonance captures involving two distinct harmonics possessing relatively high amplitudes over finite time intervals, while the overall response decays as t^−1/2 as t→∞. Considering the undamped oscillator, it possesses two types of resonances, referred to as simple and non-simple resonances. Simple resonances correspond to finite-amplitude steady-state responses caused by two sustained resonance captures, in the form of two distinct modulated quasi-periodic responses, which, however are "activated" at different time instances. The necessary and sufficient conditions for non-simple resonances are given in the form of a theorem which predicts the existence of resonant harmonics and specifies the special phase conditions that the resonant harmonics must satisfy for constructive interference; the resulting undamped non-simple resonance grows unboundedly as t^−1/2 as t→∞, in contrast to the classical resonance growth of the linear resonator with unmodulated harmonic excitation whose response grows as t as t→∞. These resonant responses are persistent to changes in the parameters of the wNSFM. Our results reveal interesting infinite sets of resonances in linear SDOF resonators under frequency-modulated excitations.
ER -