Period-3 Motions in a Periodically Forced, Damped, Double-Well Duffing Oscillator With Time-Delay

In this paper, period-3 motions in a double-well Duffing oscillator with time-delay are predicted by a semi-analytical method. The implicit mapping structures of period-3 motions are constructed through the implicit mappings obtained by discretization of the corresponding differential equation. Complex period-3 motions are predicted through nonlinear algebraic equations of the implicit mappings in the mapping structures and the corresponding stability and bifurcation are carried out through eigenvalue analysis. Numerical and analytical results of complex period-3 motions are obtained and the corresponding frequency-amplitude characteristics are presented.