Mathematical modeling of many engineering systems such as beam structures often leads to nonlinear ordinary or partial differential equations. Nonlinear vibration analysis of the beam structures is very important in mechanical and industrial applications. This paper presents the high order frequency-amplitude relationship for nonlinear transversely vibrating beams with odd and even nonlinearities using the improved energy balance method and the global residue harmonic balance method. The accuracy of the energy balance method is improved based on combining features of collocation method and Galerkin–Petrov method, and an improved harmonic balance method is proposed which is called the global residue harmonic balance method. Unlike other harmonic balance methods, all the former global residual errors are introduced in the present approximation to improve the accuracy. Finally, preciseness of the present analytic procedures is evaluated in contrast with numerical calculations methods, giving excellent results

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