  The aim of this work is to theoretically investigate the possibility of Kerr
frequency combs in mechanical systems. In particular, whether
microelectrome-chanical devices (MEMS) can be used to generate frequency combs
in a manner that is analogous to the optical frequency combs generated in
optical microresona-tors with Kerr-type nonlinearity. The analysis assumes a
beam-like micromechani-cal structure, and starting from the Euler-Bernoulli
beam equation derives the nec-essary conditions in parameter space for the comb
generation. The chapter equally presents potential means for the physical
implementation of mechanical Kerr combs.
