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These systems are primarily used to solve air lubrication problems in high-precision mechanisms and equipment that run at a high rotational speed and require high rigidity and precision. DCABs have the advantages of axial and radial thrust and provide high rigidity, dual-directional support, and high load-carrying capacity. In DCAB systems, the nonlinearity of the air film pressure and dynamic problems, such as critical speed, unbalanced air supply, or poor design, can cause the instability of the rotor-bearing system and phenomena such as nonperiodic or chaotic motion under certain parameters or conditions. Therefore, to investigate what conditions lead to nonperiodic phenomena and to avoid irregular vibration, the properties and performance of the DCAB system were explored in detail by using three numerical methods for verifying the accuracy of the numerical results. The rotor behavior was also studied by analyzing the spectral response, the bifurcation phenomenon, Poincar\u00e9 maps, and the maximum Lyapunov exponent. The numerical results indicate that chaos occurs in the DCAB system for specific ranges of the rotor mass and bearing number. For example, when the rotor mass (mr) is 5.7 kg, chaotic regions where the maximum Lyapunov exponents are greater than 0 occur at bearing number ranges of 3.96\u20133.98 and 4.63\u20135.02. The coupling effect of the rotor mass and bearing number was also determined. 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