Flutter induced by friction

We provide the first definitive experimental evidence that flutter instability (a blowing-up vibrational motion) and divergence instability (an exponentially growing motion) can be induced by dry friction in a mechanical system that would be stable in the absence of frictional forces. We show that Coulomb friction produces a follower load of the type studied, among others, by Ziegler.



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Related papers:

• D. Bigoni and G. Noselli Experimental evidence of flutter and divergence instabilities induced by dry friction.
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2011, 59, 2208–2226.


• D. Bigoni, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Bifurcation Theory and Material Instability. Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN:9781107025417.

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