Nonlinear vibrations of a slender beam interacting with a periodic viscoelastic subsoil

The paper describes nonlinear vibrations of Euler-Bernoulli beams interacting with a periodic viscoelastic foundation. The original model equations with highly oscillating periodic coefficients are transformed using the tolerance modelling technique. Newly delivered equations have constant coefficients and describe macro-dynamics of the beam including the effect of the microstructure size. The main purpose of this paper is to propose an equivalent approximate model describing the nonlinear vibrations of a beam interacting with a periodic viscoelastic subsoil.