Dynamics of strain bifurcations in magnetostrictive ribbon

Abstract

We develop a coupled nonlinear oscillator model involving magnetization and strain to explain several experimentally observed dynamical features exhibited by forced magnetostrictive ribbon. Here we show that the model recovers the observed period doubling route to chaos as function of the dc field for a fixed ac field and quasiperiodic route to chaos as a function of the ac field, keeping the dc field constant. The model also predicts induced and suppressed chaos under the influence of an additional small-amplitude near resonant ac field. Our analysis suggests rich dynamics in coupled order parameter systems like magnetomartensitic and magnetoelectric materials.