This study is motivated by the vibrations that plague coating processes used in the manufacturing of coated sheet metal. These vibrations arise from time-dependent tension fluctuations within the sheet metal plate as well as from the eccentricity of the rollers used to transport the plate. The time-dependent tension is observed to be rather broad-band and creates multi-frequency parametric excitation. By contrast, the roller eccentricity is largely single-frequency (synchronized with the roller speed) and creates single-frequency external excitation. The plate and excitation sources are studied herein using a single-degree-of-freedom model with a cubic nonlinearity, subject to combined parametric and external excitation. In our study, we investigate the resonances that arise from the synergistic effects of multi-frequency parametric excitation and single-frequency external excitation. For the simpler case of single-frequency parametric excitation, we observe both sum and difference combination resonances in addition to principal parametric resonance. For the case of multi-frequency parametric excitation, we observe a frequency shift for the parametric resonance that derives from the cubic nonlinearity and external excitation. Moreover, the phase relationships of the external and each parametric excitation source have a significant effect on the resulting response amplitude. We use these analyses to explain the resonance mechanisms observed in experiments conducted on an example sheet metal coating process.

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