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Chapter 8: Harmonic Balance Method Examples

The following example analyses demonstrate harmonic balance method capabilities and show how to prepare, solve, and postprocess these analyses.

  • 8.1. Example 1: 1-DOF Duffing Oscillator
  • 8.2. Example 2: Two Cantilever Beams with Frictionless Gap Contact
  • 8.3. Example 3: Two Jointed Beams with Frictional Contact Interface
  • 8.4. Example 4: Cyclic Spring-Mass System with Cubic Nonlinearity
  • 8.5. Example 5: Cyclic Model with Solid Elements and Frictional Contact

See also these example problems in the Mechanical APDL Verification Manual:

VM319: Nonlinear Harmonic Analysis of a Cyclic Chain of Oscillators
VM320: Nonlinear Harmonic Analysis of a Frictional Damper
« 7.3. HBM Cyclic Analysis: Postprocessing 
 8.1. Example 1: 1-DOF Duffing Oscillator »

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