We consider the half-linear differential equation of the form $$\left(p\left(t\right)\right|x^{\text{'}}{|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}{x}^{\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}}+q\left(t\right){\left|x\right|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}x=0,t\ge t_0,$$ under the assumption that $p{\left(t\right)}^{-1/\alpha }$ is integrable on $[t_0,\infty )$. It is shown that if a certain condition is satisfied, then the above equation has a pair of nonoscillatory solutions with specific asymptotic behavior as $t\to \infty$.

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior as $t\to \infty$ of solutions $u$ to the forced Preisach oscillator equation $\ddot{w}\left(t\right)+u\left(t\right)=\psi \left(t\right)$, $w=u+𝒫\left[u\right]$, where $𝒫$ is a Preisach hysteresis operator, $\psi \in L^{\infty }(0,\infty )$ is a given function and $t\ge 0$ is the time variable. We establish an explicit asymptotic relation between the Preisach measure and the function $\psi$ (or, in a more physical terminology, a balance condition between the hysteresis dissipation and the external forcing) which guarantees that every solution remains bounded for all times. Examples show...