%0 Journal Article %T How do conservative backbone curves perturb into forced responses? A Melnikov function analysis %A George Haller %A Mattia Cenedese %J - %D 2020 %R 10.1098/rspa.2019.0494 %X Weakly damped mechanical systems under small periodic forcing tend to exhibit periodic response in a close vicinity of certain periodic orbits of their conservative limit. Specifically, amplitude-f.. %U https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2019.0494