Nonlinear behaviour of different flexible size-dependent beams models based on the modified couple stress theory. Part 2. Chaotic dynamics of flexible beams

In the present part of the paper various problems of non-linear dynamics of nano-beams within the modified couple stress theory as well as the Bernoulli-Euler, Timoshenko, and Sheremetev-Pelekh-Reddy-Levinson models are studied taking into account the geometric non-linearity. Different characteristics of the vibrational process, including Fourier spectra, wavelet spectra, phase portraits, Poincaré maps as well as the largest Lyapunov exponents, are studied for the same physical-geometric parameter with and without consideration of the size-dependent behaviour. Vibration graphs are constructed and analysed, and scenarios of transition from regular to chaotic vibrations are illustrated and discussed.