Time-Periodic Solutions of Driven-Damped Trimer Granular Crystals

Figure 8

The bifurcation diagram corresponding to the maximum velocity of bead 4 as a function of the actuation frequency and for a value of the actuation amplitude of  μm is presented with smooth curves. The color indexing is the same as in Figures 3 and 5. The black squares with error bars represent the experimentally measured mean values of the velocities which were obtained using three experimental runs. Furthermore, the light gray areas enclosed by vertical dash-dotted black lines correspond to the frequency gaps according to Table 2 (see also Figure 2). Note that panel (b) is a zoom-in of panel (a).

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