Using a Lyapunov-type approach, a simple sufficient stability condition for linear conservative gyroscopic systems with negative definite stiffness matrix is derived. The condition is nonspectral; it involves only the definiteness of certain combinations of the system’s coefficient matrices.

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Brief Notes
Topics:
Stability, Stiffness
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