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This paper is devoted to the problem of existence of a solution for a non-resonant, non-linear generalized multi-point boundary value problem on the interval $[0,1]$. The existence of a solution is obtained using topological degree and some a priori estimates for functions satisfying the boundary conditions specified in the problem.

Let $g$: $𝐑\to 𝐑$ be a continuous function, $e$: $[0,1]\to 𝐑$ a function in $L^2[0,1]$ and let $c\in 𝐑$, $c\ne 0$ be given. It is proved that Duffing’s equation $u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+c{u}^{\text{'}}+g\left(u\right)=e\left(x\right)$, $0<x<1$, $u\left(0\right)=u\left(1\right)$, $u^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=u^{\text{'}}\left(1\right)$ in the presence of the damping term has at least one solution provided there exists an $𝐑>0$ such that $g\left(u\right)u\ge 0$ for $\left|u\right|\ge 𝐑$ and ${\int }_0^{1}e\left(x\right)dx=0$. It is further proved that if $g$ is strictly increasing on $𝐑$ with ${lim}_{u\to -\infty }g\left(u\right)=-\infty$, ${lim}_{u\to \infty }g\left(u\right)=\infty$ and it Lipschitz continuous with Lipschitz constant $\alpha <4{\pi }^2+c^2$, then Duffing’s equation given above has exactly one solution for every $e\in L^2[0,1]$.

Let $f:[0,1]\times {ℝ}^2\to ℝ$ be a function satisfying Caratheodory’s conditions and let $e\left(t\right)\in L^1[0,1]$. Let ${\xi }_i,{\tau }_j\in (0,1)$, $c_i,a_j\in ℝ$, all of the $c_i$’s, (respectively, $a_j$’s) having the same sign, $i=1,2,...,m-2$, $j=1,2,...,n-2$, $0<{\xi }_1<{\xi }_2<...<{\xi }_{m-2}<1$, $0<{\tau }_1<{\tau }_2<...<{\tau }_{n-2}<1$ be given. This paper is concerned with the problem of existence of a solution for the multi-point boundary value problems $$\begin{array}{c}\hfill x^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)=f(t,x\left(t\right),x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right))+e\left(t\right),t\in (0,1)E\\ \hfill x\left(0\right)=\sum _{i=1}^{m-2}{c}_i{x}^{\text{'}}\left({\xi }_i\right),x\left(1\right)=\sum _{j=1}^{n-2}{a}_{j}x\left({\tau }_j\right)B{C}_{mn}\end{array}$$ and $$\begin{array}{c}\hfill x^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)=f(t,x\left(t\right),x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right))+e\left(t\right),t\in (0,1)E\\ \hfill x\left(0\right)=\sum _{i=1}^{m-2}{c}_i{x}^{\text{'}}\left({\xi }_i\right),x^{\text{'}}\left(1\right)=\sum _{j=1}^{n-2}{a}_j{x}^{\text{'}}\left({\tau }_j\right),B{C}_{mn}^{\text{'}}\end{array}$$ Conditions for the existence of a solution for the above boundary value problems are given using Leray-Schauder Continuation theorem.