Suppression of self-excited vibrations by a random parametric excitation

Previous theoretical and experimental studies have shown that some vibrating systems can be stabilized by zero-averaged periodic parametric excitations. It is shown in this paper that some zero-mean random parametric excitations can also be useful for this stabilization. Under some conditions, they can be even more efficient compared to the periodic ones. Two-mass mechanical system with self-excited vibrations is considered for this comparison. The so-called bounded noise is used as a model of the random parametric excitation. The mean-square stability diagrams are obtained numerically by considering an eigenvalue problem for large matrices.