Boundedness and stability for the damped and forced single well Duffing equation
Abstract
By using differential inequalities we improve some estimates of W.S. LOUD for the ultimate bound and asymptotic stability of the solutions to the Duffing equation u'' + cu' + g(u) = f(t) where c > 0, f is measurable and essentially bounded, and g is continuously differentiable with g' >= b > 0.