Research Article

Route to Chaos and Bistability Analysis of Quasi-Periodically Excited Three-Leg Supporter with Shape Memory Alloy

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(a) Bistability of system (8) with the blue plots showing the forward continuation (increase parameter from 0 to 1.5) and the red plots showing backward continuation (Decrease parameter from 1 to 0) with reinitialization of the initial conditions. (b) Corresponding Lyapunov exponents.
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