Analysis of internal resonance in a two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear dynamical system

This study is devoted to the analysis of the three-to-one internal resonance in a two degree-of-freedom system with cubic nonlinearity. Quasi-periodic motion is found to appear in the present system with internal resonance, while it does not show up in the case without internal resonance. Both the time domain collocation method and the harmonic balance method are applied to obtain the periodic solutions, and are compared with the benchmark solution of the numerical integration method. In contrast, the quasi-periodic solutions can only be captured via the numerical integration method. A combination of the phase plane portrait, Poincare map, and the frequency spectrum are employed to identify the quasi-periodic motions. A peculiar bifurcation-of-attraction-basin phenomenon is found and demonstrated. Moreover, for strongly nonlinear system subject to high external force, a long-lived chaotic transient is observed.