Thedynamicresponseofthenon-linearelasticsimplysupportedbeamsubjectedtoaxialforcesandtransverseperiodicloadisstudied.Melnikovmethodisusedtoconsiderthedynamicbehav-iorofthesystemwhosepost-bucklingpathissteady.Theeffectofthehigherordertermsinthecon-trollingequationistakenintoaccount.Itisfoundthatthefifth-ordertermshaveagreatinfluenceonthedynamicbehaviorofthesystem.Theresultshowsthatthereexisteitherhomoclinicorbitsorhete-roclinicorbitsinthesystem.Inthispaper,thecriticalvaluesofthesystementeringchaoticstatesaregiven.Thediagramofanexampleisshown.
