Lawrie Virgin
This talk is concerned with the determination of basin boundaries in
experimental nonlinear
oscillators. Global transient behavior has received considerable attention
in numerical studies but is
relatively unexplored from an experimental perspective, despite the
fact that a global view of transient
behavior provides a much more complete description of the dynamics
of a system than a traditional
concentration on steady-state behavior. Five different experimental
systems are considered: four mechanical
and one electrical.