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obtained through standard methods like the harmonic balance or the describing

function technique. Thissuggeststheideaofusingananalyticalapproximationofthe

real periodic trajectory in Equations 17.6 through 17.8. Clearly, rigorous conditions

which guarantee the reliability of the approach can be hardly derived. However,

from a practitioner’s perspective, the methodology can be a posteriori justified

comparing the obtained results with those provided by numerical experiments. An

approach, hereinafter referred to as the DFMT technique (Describing Function

and Malkin’s Theorem–based Technique), based on the following steps has been

devised:

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(1) The periodic trajectories γ

i

(t) of the uncoupled oscillators are ...