This review features a survey of some recent developments in asymptotic techniques and new developments, which are valid not only for weakly nonlinear equations, but also for strongly ones. Further, the achieved approximate analytical solutions are valid for the whole solution domain. The limitations of traditional perturbation methods are illustrated, various modified perturbation techniques are proposed, and some mathematical tools such as variational theory, homotopy technology, and iteration technique are introduced to over-come the shortcomings.In this review we have applied different powerful analytical methods to solve high nonlinear problems in engineering vibrations. Some patterns are given to illustrate the effectiveness and convenience of the methodologies.

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A vast amount of published work can be found in the field of beam vibrations dealing with analytical and numerical techniques. This paper deals with analysis of the nonlinear free vibrations of beams. The problem considered represents the governing equation of the nonlinear, large amplitude free vibrations of tapered beams. A new implementation of the ancient Chinese method called the Max-Min Approach (MMA) and Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) are presented to obtain natural frequency and corresponding displacement of tapered beams. The effect of vibration amplitude on the non-linear frequency is discussed. In the end to illustrate the effectiveness and convenience of the MMA and HPM, the obtained results are compared with the exact ones and shown in graphs and in tables. Those approaches are very effective and simple and with only one iteration leads to high accuracy of the solutions. It is predicted that those methods can be found wide application in engineering problems, as indicated in this paper. Keywords large amplitude free vibrations, analytical solution, tapered beam, Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM), Max-Min Approach (MMA).

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This study describes an analytical method to study two well-known systems of nonlinear oscillators. One of these systems deals with the strongly nonlinear vibrations of an elastically restrained beam with a lumped mass. The other is a Duffing equation with constant coefficients. A new implementation of the Variational Approach (VA) is presented to obtain highly accurate analytical solutions to free vibration of conservative oscillators with inertia and static type cubic nonlinearities. In the end, numerical comparisons are conducted between the results obtained by the Variational Approach and numerical solution using Runge-Kutta's [RK] algorithm to illustrate the effectiveness and convenience of the proposed methods.