Global and exponential attractors for the singularly perturbedextensible beam

The paper deals with the nonlinear evolution equationε∂ttu + $\delta$∂tu+ $\omega$∂xxxx u-$[\beta+\int_0^1[\partial_y u(y,t)]^2\d y ]$∂xxu=f,which describes the motion of the vertical deflection of an extensible Kirchhoff beam. The existence of the global attractor of optimal regularity is shown, as well as the existence of a family of exponential attractors Hölder-continuous in the symmetric Hausdorff distance (with respect to ε) and of finite fractal dimension uniformly bounded with respect to ε.