Awrejcewicz J., Krysko V.A.
In this chapter we carry out numerical analysis of the scenarios of transition from periodic to chaotic vibrations exhibited by shells. Namely, we have detected and studied the so called modified Ruelle-Takens-Newhouse (RTN) scenario the modified Ruelle-Takens-Feigenbaum (RTF) scenario as well as the modified Pomeau-Manneville scenario found in our analysed mechanical continuous systems. We have numerically investigated the Sharkovsky’s orders of periodicity for PDEs governing dynamics of shallow shells. In the case of analysis of vibrations of the closed cylindrical shell with k
y = 112.5 and λ = 3 under transversal uniformly distributed harmonic load
$$q={{q}_{0}}\sin ({{\omega }_{p}}t)$$
, localized in the shell zone characterized by the angle φ
0 = 6, we have detected windows of periodicity which coincide with the order predicted by Sharkovsky’s theorem, i.e. 3; 5; 22 ⋅ 5; 9. We have also investigated a cylindrical panel under action of the longitudinal two-parametric load
$${{p}_{x}}={{p}_{0}}\sin ({{\omega }_{p}}t)$$
and p
y = α ⋅ p
x for k
y = 24 and α = 3 where we have found also the periodicity windows following the Sharkovsky’s order 3; 2 ⋅ 3; 5; 2 ⋅ 5; 7; 2 ⋅ 7; 11; 13. The carried out analysis of the phase and model portraits constructed for both periodic and chaotic shell vibrations revealed that the space and temporal (timing) chaos appear simultaneously, i.e. in the case of shells it refers to occurrence of the space-temporal chaos.