It has previously been established that in a prestressed incompressible elastic plate, a near-critical instability mode can interact resonantly with two non-critical vibration modes and that the evolution equations for the three modes take the form d2 A1/dτ2 = -c0A1 - c1|A1|2A1 - γ1Ā2Ā3, dA2/dτ = γ2Ā1Ā3 and dA3/dτ = γ3Ā1Ā2, where a bar denotes complex conjugation, τ is a slow time variable and c0, c1, γ1, γ2, γ3 are real constants. In this paper, we analyze these amplitude equations using dynamical systems theory. Regions of the parametric space that correspond to bounded solutions are determined and some explicit representations of the bounded solutions are obtained. It is shown that the resonant-triad interaction can lead to chaotic motions.