Resonance and the Aging Spring

The steady-state response of the classic mass-spring-dashpot model when the spring stiffness decays exponentially with time (an aging spring) and the system is excited by a forcing function whose frequency is equal to the natural frequency of the system with the constant initial stiffness is investigated. The steady-state response is obtained in terms of the dumping and decay constants of the system and exhibits an oscillation about a nonzero value. ©2002 ASME