This chapter presents a new methodology through a harmonic balance method to identify the parameters to describe the hysteresis effect in bolted joints using the Bouc-Wen model. The main idea is to adopt a priori smoothing ...

Describing hysteretic systems with a closed-form solution is a challenging task due to some pitfalls regarding the non-smooth and memory effect mechanisms that do not permit, for example, to apply conventional frequency ...

Hysteresis is a nonlinear phenomenon present in many structures, such as those assembled by bolted joints. Despite a large number of recent findings related to identification techniques for these systems, the problem is ...

The objective of this work is to study the dynamical behavior of vehicle suspension systems employing asymmetrical viscous damping, with a focus on improving passenger comfort. Previous studies have shown that the use of ...

In this paper, bifurcations of limit cycles close to certain singularities of the vector fields are explored using an algorithm based on the harmonic balance method, the theory of nonlinear feedback systems and the monodromy ...

A frequency domain method is used to estimate the harmonic contents of a smooth oscillation arising from the Hopf bifurcation mechanism. The harmonic contents up to the eighth-order are well estimated, which agree with the ...

Three methods are used to determine the natural frequency of undamped free vibration of a mass interacting with a Hertzian contact stiffness. The exact value is determined using the first integral of motion. The harmonic ...