“…These early studies were pursued and extended by: Chen and co-workers (Tang et al 2009, Chen and Ding 2010, Huang et al 2011, Yang et al 2012, who considered string and different beam models of the system and employed different analytical and numerical methods; Marynowski and co-workers Kapitaniak 2002, Marynowski andKapitaniak 2007), who considered several energy dissipation mechanisms in the model; Pellicano and Vestroni (Pellicano and Vestroni 2002), who investigated the dynamics of high-speed axially moving systems; Suweken and Van Horssen (Suweken and Van Horssen 2003), who investigated the vibrations of the system with weak nonlinearity and found several internal resonances in the system dynamics; Huang et al (2011), who employed the method of harmonic balance to investigate the system dynamics; Pakdemirli and co-workers (Pakdemirli et al 1994, Pakdemirli and Ulsoy 1997, Pakdemirli and Özkaya 1998, Öz et al 2001, Pakdemirli and BoyacI 2003, Burak Özhan and Pakdemirli 2010, who conducted systematic research in this area by employing some perturbation techniques; Stylianou and Tabarrok (Stylianou and Tabarrok 1994), who used the finite element method to examine the system dynamics; and Nguyen and Hong (2011), who developed a novel control algorithm to suppress the transverse vibrations of an axially moving web.…”