Analysis of complex parametric vibrations of plates and shells using Bubnov-Galerkin approach

Summary The Bubnov-Galerkin method is applied to reduce partial differential equations governing the dynamics of flexible plates and shells to a discrete system with finite degrees of freedom. Chaotic behaviour of systems with various degrees of freedom is analysed. It is shown that the attractor dimension of a system has no relationship with the attractor dimension of any of its subsystems.This work has been partially supported by Department of Mathematics of the Central European University in Budapest.