An analysis of the chaos suppression of a nonlinear elastic beam (NLEB) is presented. In terms of modal transformation the equation of NLEB is reduced to the Duffing equation. It is shown that the chaotic behaviour of the NLEB is sensitively dependent on the parameters of perturbations and initial conditions. By adjusting the frequency of parametric perturbation to twice that of the periodic one and the amplitude of parametric perturbation to the same as the periodic one, the chaotic region of the nonlinear elastic beam driven by periodic force can be greatly suppressed.