Forced Nonlinear Oscillations of an Autoparametric System—Part 2: Chaotic Responses

Chaotic oscillations arising in forced oscillations of a two degree-of-freedom autoparametric system are studied. Statistical analysis of the numerically integrated nonperiodic responses is shown to be a meaningful description of the mean square values and the frequency contents of the responses. Some qualitative experimental results are presented to substantiate the necessity of performing the statistical analysis of the responses even though the system and the input are deterministic.