Featured Application: The qualitative and quantitative dynamic behavior of two degree-offreedom nonlinear systems can be studied by using their corresponding decoupled one degree of freedom Duffing type equivalent representation forms in the sense of Lyapunov, with the advantage of capturing amplitude-dependent nonlinear mode shapes.Abstract: The aim of this paper focuses on finding equivalent representation forms of forced, damped, two degree-of-freedom, nonlinear systems in the sense of Lyapunov by using a nonlinear transformation approach that provides decoupled, forced, damped, nonlinear equations of the Duffing type, under the assumption that the driving frequency and the external forces are equal in both systems. The values of Lyapunov characteristic exponents (LCEs), Lyapunov largest exponents (LLE), and time-amplitude and frequency-amplitude curves computed from numerical integration solutions, indicate that the decoupled Duffing-type equations are equivalent, in the sense of Lyapunov, to the original dynamic system, since both set of motion equations tend to have the same qualitative and quantitative behaviors.