TARGETED ENERGY TRANSFER IN A SYSTEM WITH SOFT NONLINEARITY
Oleg Gendelman
Targeted energy transfer (TET) in a 2DOF system consisting of primary linear oscillator and nonlinear energy sink (NES) with non – polynomial potential is investigated. Use of non – polynomial and even non – analytic potential functions is motivated by needs of practical design. It is demonstrated that the "complexification – averaging" technique of analysis developed before can be successfully extended for these cases with proper modifications.