Torsional vibrations of discrete-continuous systems with local nonlinearity having hard type characteristics

In the paper, nonlinear vibrations of torsionally deformed multi-mass mechanical systems are studied. The systems consist of shafts connected by an arbitrary number of rigid bodies together with a local nonlinearity having the characteristic of a hard type. It is proposed to describe this characteristic by irrational functions. In the considerations, an approach using the wave solution to equations of motion is applied. Detailed numerical calculations are given for a two-mass and a three-mass system. They focus on nonlinear effects in the considered systems.