摘要

The extended Melnikov method is improved to investigate the nonautonomous nonlinear dynamical system in Cartesian coordinate. The multipulse chaotic dynamics of a simply supported functionally graded materials (FGM) rectangular plate subjected to transversal and in-plane excitations is investigated in this paper for the first time. The formulas of the FGM rectangular plate are two-degree-of-freedom nonautonomous nonlinear system with coupling of nonlinear terms including several square and cubic terms. The extended Melnikov method is improved to enable us to analyze directly the nonautonomous nonlinear dynamical system of the simply-supported FGM rectangular plate. The results obtained here indicate that multipulse chaotic motions can occur in the simply-supported FGM rectangular plate. Numerical simulation is also employed to find the multipulse chaotic motions of the simply-supported FGM rectangular plate.