Global bifurcations and multi-pulse chaotic dynamics of rectangular thin plate with one-to-one internal resonance

Global bifurcations and multi-pulse chaotic dynamics for a simply supported rectangular thin plate are studied by the extended Melnikov method. The rectangular thin plate is subject to transversal and in-plane excitation. A two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear nonautonomous system governing equations of motion for the rectangular thin plate is derived by the von Karman type equation and the Galerkin approach. A one-to- one internal resonance is considered. An averaged equation is obtained with a multi-scale method. After transforming the averaged equation into a standard form, the extended Melnikov method is used to show the existence of multi-pulse chaotic dynamics, which can be used to explain the mechanism of modal interactions of thin plates. A method for calculating the Melnikov function is given without an explicit analytical expression of homoclinic orbits. Furthermore, restrictions on the damping, excitation, and detuning parameters are obtained, under which the multi-pulse chaotic dynamics is expected. The results of numerical simulations are also given to indicate the existence of small amplitude multi-pulse chaotic responses for the rectangular thin plate.

An extended high-dimensional Melnikov analysis for global and chaotic dynamics of a non-autonomous rectangular buckled thin plate

By using an extended Melnikov method on multi-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems with perturbations,the global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics are investigated for a parametrically excited,simply supported rectangular buckled thin plate.The formulas of the rectangular buckled thin plate are derived by using the von Karman type equation.The two cases of the buckling for the rectangular thin plate are considered.With the aid of Galerkin's approach,a two-degree-of-freedom nonautonomous nonlinear system is obtained for the non-autonomous rectangular buckled thin plate.The high-dimensional Melnikov method developed by Yagasaki is directly employed to the non-autonomous ordinary differential equation of motion to analyze the global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics of the rectangular buckled thin plate.Numerical method is used to find the chaotic responses of the non-autonomous rectangular buckled thin plate.The results obtained here indicate that the chaotic motions can occur in the parametrically excited,simply supported rectangular buckled thin plate.

Multi-pulse homoclinic orbits and chaotic dynamics of a parametrically excited nonlinear nano-oscillator with coupled cubic nonlinearities

In this paper,the complicated dynamics and multi-pulse homoclinic orbits of a two-degree-of-freedom parametrically excited nonlinear nano-oscillator with coupled cubic nonlinearities are studied.The damping,parametrical excitation and the nonlinearities are regarded as weak.The averaged equation depicting the fast and slow dynamics is derived through the method of multiple scales.The dynamics near the resonance band is revealed by doing a singular perturbation analysis and combining the extended Melnikov method.We are able to determine the criterion for the existence of the multi-pulse homoclinic orbits which can form the Shilnikov orbits and give rise to chaos.At last,numerical results are also given to illustrate the nonlinear behaviors and chaotic motions in the nonlinear nano-oscillator.