Asymptotic behavior of a weakly forced dry friction oscillator

Abstract

This note is devoted to stick-slip aspects of the motion of a dry friction damped oscillator under weak irregular forcing. Our main result complements[10, Theorem 3.(a)] and is also related to [1], where a non-Lipschitz model for Coulomb friction was consider in the unforced case. We provide sufficient conditions guaranteeing that solutions stabilizing in finite time, but observe also an infinite succession of “stick-slip” behavior. The last section discusses an extension to certain systems of such oscillators.