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35th IMAC Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, California, United States Of America, 30 January - 02 February 2017, pp.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.