The appropriate modeling of technical systems usually results in dynamical systems having many or even an infinite number of degrees of freedom. Moreover, nonlinearities play an important role in many applications, so that the arising systems of nonlinear differential equations are difficult to analyze. However, it is well known that the asymptotic behavior of some high dimensional systems can be described by corresponding systems of much smaller dimension. The present paper deals with the dimension reduction of nonlinear systems close to a bifurcation point. Using the ideas of normal form theory, the asymptotic dynamics of the system is extracted by a nonlinear coordinate transformation. The solutions of the reducedordsr system are analyzed analytically with respect to their stability and their domains of attraction. Furthermore, the inverse of the near-identity transformations is used to construct adapted Lyapunov functions for the original system to estimate the attractors of the solutions as well. The procedure is applied to the Duffing equation and the equations of motion of a railway wheelset and compared with numerical solutions.
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