Stochastic Stability of Gyroscopic Systems Under Bounded Noise Excitation

Dynamic stochastic stability of a two-degree-of-freedom gyroscopic system under bounded noise parametric excitation is studied in this paper through moment Lyapunov exponent and the largest Lyapunov exponent. A rotating shaft subject to stochastically fluctuating thrust is taken as a typical example. To obtain these two exponents, the gyroscopic differential equation of motion is first decoupled into Itô stochastic differential equations by using the method of stochastic averaging. Then mathematical transformations are used in these Itô equation to obtain a partial differential eigenvalue problem governing moment Lyapunov exponents, the slope of which at the origin is equal to the largest Lyapunov exponent. Depending upon the numerical relationship between the natural frequency and the excitation frequencies, the gyroscopic system may fall into four types of parametric resonance, i.e. no resonance, subharmonic resonance, combination additive resonance, and combination differential resonance. The effects of noise and frequency detuning parameters on the parametric resonance are investigated. The results pave the way to utilize or control the vibration of gyroscopic systems under stochastic excitation.