35th IMAC Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, California, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 30 Ocak - 02 Şubat 2017, ss.199-203
Structural decoupling problem has been well investigated for three decades and led to several decoupling methods. In spite of the inherent nonlinearities in a structural system in various forms all decoupling studies are for linear systems. In this study, decoupling problem for nonlinear systems is addressed for the first time and a method is proposed for calculating the frequency response functions of a substructure decoupled from a coupled nonlinear structure where nonlinearity can be modelled as a single nonlinear element. The method proposed is validated through simulated case studies.