“…Some early works in this field by Stephenson [2,3], Hirsch [4], and Kapitza [5] deal with the now well-known effect of the upright stabilization of a pendulum with a rapidly oscillating support, and Chelomei [6] proposed to use similar effects for stabilizing elastic systems. More recent investigations include using resonant HF excitation to transport fluid or strings through pipes [7,8], damp resonant vibrations of strings and beams [9][10][11][12], induce linear motion in systems with asymmetrical friction [13,14], change the equilibriums, stability, natural frequencies, and non-linear frequency response for a two-bar link [15], increase the buckling load and natural frequencies for columns [16][17][18], quench friction-induced periodic or chaotic oscillations for non-linear oscillators [19][20][21], stabilize or change the non-linear behavior of follower-loaded double pendulums and articulated fluid-carrying pipes [22][23][24], explain the ''floating'' of the disk on the inverted so-called ''Chelomei's pendulum'' [16,25,26], and form other properties of non-linear mechanical systems [27]. Effects of HF excitation have been investigated for continuous flexible structures such as strings, beams and rotating disks [28][29][30][31], and with consideration to change in basic material properties such as creep, relaxation, plasticity [1,32] (plus a number of works published only in Russian).…”