Validity and accuracy of solutions for nonlinear vibration analyses of suspended cables with one-to-one internal resonance

This study investigates the accuracy of nonlinear vibration analyses of a suspended cable, which possesses quadratic and cubic nonlinearities, with one-to-one internal resonance. To this end, we derive approximate solutions for primary resonance using two different approaches. In the first approach, the method of multiple scales is directly applied to governing equations, which are nonlinear partial differential equations. In the second approach, we first discretize the governing equations by using Galerkin's procedure and then apply the shooting method. The accuracy of the results obtained by these approaches is confirmed by comparing them with results obtained by the finite difference method. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.