Dynamic Stability of a Cantilever Shaft-Disk System

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lien-Wen Chen ◽  
Der-Ming Ku

The dynamic stability behavior of a cantilever shaft-disk system subjected to axial periodic forces varying with time is studied by the finite element method. The equations of motion for such a system are formulated using deformation shape functions developed from Timoshenko beam theory. The effects of translational and rotatory inertia, gyroscopic moment, bending and shear deformation are included in the mathematical model. Numerical results show that the effect of the gyroscopic term is to shift the boundaries of the regions of dynamic instability outwardly and, therefore, the sizes of these regions are enlarged as the rotational speed increases.

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Khanlo ◽  
M. Ghayour ◽  
S. Ziaei-Rad

AbstractThis study investigates the effects of disk position nonlinearities on the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a rotating flexible shaft-disk system. Displacement of the disk on the shaft causes certain nonlinear terms which appears in the equations of motion, which can in turn affect the dynamic behavior of the system. The system is modeled as a continuous shaft with a rigid disk in different locations. Also, the disk gyroscopic moment is considered. The partial differential equations of motion are extracted under the Rayleigh beam theory. The assumed modes method is used to discretize partial differential equations and the resulting equations are solved via numerical methods. The analytical methods used in this work are inclusive of time series, phase plane portrait, power spectrum, Poincaré map, bifurcation diagrams, and Lyapunov exponents. The effect of disk nonlinearities is studied for some disk positions. The results confirm that when the disk is located at mid-span of the shaft, only the regular motion (period one) is observed. However, periodic, sub-harmonic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic states can be observed for situations in which the disk is located at places other than the middle of the shaft. The results show nonlinear effects are negligible in some cases.


Author(s):  
Mzaki Dakel ◽  
Sébastien Baguet ◽  
Régis Dufour

In ship and aircraft turbine rotors, the rotating mass unbalance and the different movements of the rotor base are among the main causes of vibrations in bending. The goal of this paper is to investigate the dynamic behavior of an on-board rotor under rigid base excitations. The modeling takes into consideration six types of base deterministic motions (rotations and translations) when the kinetic and strain energies in addition to the virtual work of the rotating flexible rotor components are computed. The finite element method is used in the rotor modeling by employing the Timoshenko beam theory. The proposed on-board rotor model takes into account the rotary inertia, the gyroscopic inertia, the shear deformation of shaft as well as the geometric asymmetry of shaft and/or rigid disk. The Lagrange’s equations are applied to establish the differential equations of the rotor in bending with respect to the rigid base which represents a noninertial reference frame. The linear equations of motion display periodic parametric coefficients due to the asymmetry of the rotor and time-varying parametric coefficients due to the base rotational motions. In the proposed applications, the rotor mounted on rigid/elastic bearings is excited by a rotating mass unbalance associated with sinusoidal vibrations of the rigid base. The dynamic behavior of the rotor is analyzed by means of orbits of the rotor as well as fast Fourier transforms (FFTs).


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng He ◽  
Xinhai Wu ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Huan He

The intrinsic beam theory, as one of the exact beam formulas, is quite suitable to describe large deformation of the flexible curved beam and has been widely used in many engineering applications. Owing to the advantages of the intrinsic beam theory, the resulted equations are expressed in first-order partial differential form with second-order nonlinear terms. In order to solve the intrinsic beam equations in a relative simple way, in this paper, the point interpolation meshless method was employed to obtain the discretization equations of motion. Different from those equations by using the finite element method, only the differential of the shape functions are needed to form the final discrete equations. Thus, the present method does not need integration process for all elements during each time step. The proposed method has been demonstrated by a numerical example, and results show that this method is highly efficient in treating this type of problem with good accuracy.


1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
J. Thomas ◽  
B. A. H. Abbas

This paper presents the results of an investigation of the dynamic stability of steel off-shore platforms subjected to vertical and horizontal forces. A computer program based on the finite-element method was developed to calculate the frequencies of vibration, the buckling load, and the regions of dynamic instability.


Author(s):  
F. Yang ◽  
R. Sedaghati ◽  
E. Esmailzadeh

Curved beam-type structures have many applications in engineering area. Due to the initial curvature of the central line, it is complicated to develop and solve the equations of motion by taking into account the extensibility of the curve axis and the influences of the shear deformation and the rotary inertia. In this study the finite element method is utilized to study the curved beam with arbitrary geometry. The curved beam is modeled using the Timoshenko beam theory and the circular ring model. The governing equation of motion is derived using the Extended-Hamilton principle and numerically solved by the finite element method. A parametric sensitive study for the natural frequencies has been performed and compared with those reported in the literature in order to demonstrate the accuracy of the analysis.


Author(s):  
Hwang-Kuen Chen ◽  
Der-Ming Ku ◽  
Lien-Wen Chen

Abstract The stability behavior of a cantilevered shaft, rotating at a constant speed and subjected to a follower force at the free end, is studied by the finite element method. The equations of motion for such a gyroscopic system are formulated by using deformation shape functions developed from Timoshenko beam theory. The effects of translational and rotatory inertia, gyroscopic moments, bending and shear deformations are included. In order to determine the critical load of the present nonconservative system more quickly and efficiently, a simple and direct method that utilizes the eigenvalue sensitivity with respect to the follower force is introduced. The numerical results show that for the present nonconservative system, the onset of flutter instability occurs when the first and second backward whirl speeds are coincident. And also, due to the effect of the gyroscopic moments, the critical flutter load decreases as the rotational speed increases.


Author(s):  
Júlio C. Coaquira ◽  
Paulo B. Gonçalves ◽  
Eulher C. Carvalho

Structural elements with thin-walled open cross-sections are common in metal and composite structures. These thin-walled beams have generally a good flexural strength with respect to the axis of greatest inertia, but a low flexural stiffness in relation to the second principal axis and a low torsional stiffness. These elements generally have an instability, which leads to a flexural-flexural-torsional coupling. The same applies to the vibration modes. Many of these structures work in a nonlinear regime, and a nonlinear formulation that takes into account large displacements and the flexural-flexural-torsional coupling is required. In this work a nonlinear beam theory that takes into account large displacements, warping and shortening effects, as well as flexural-flexural-torsional coupling is adopted. The governing nonlinear equations of motion are discretized in space using the Galerkin method and the discretized equations of motion are solved by the Runge-Kutta method. Special attention is given to the nonlinear oscillations of beams with low torsional stiffness and its influence on the bifurcations and instabilities of the structure, a problem not tackled in the previous literature on this subject. Time responses, phase portraits and bifurcation diagrams are used to unveil the complex dynamic.


Author(s):  
Nicole L. Zirkelback ◽  
Jerry H. Ginsberg

A shaft with attached rigid disks is modeled as a rotating Timoshenko beam supported by general compliant, nonconservative bearing supports. The continuous shaft-disk system is described with kinetic and potential energy functionals that fully account for transverse shear, translational and rotatory inertia, and gyroscopic coupling. Ritz series expansions are used to describe the flexural displacements and cross-sectional rotations about orthogonal fixed axes. The equations of motion are derived from Lagrange’s equations and placed in a state-space form that preserves the skew-symmetric gyroscopic matrix, as well as the cross-coupling displacement and velocity coefficient matrices describing the effects of bearings. Both the general and adjoint eigenproblems for the nonsymmetric equations are solved. Bi-orthogonality conditions lead to the ability to evaluate dynamic response via modal analysis. Two examples, which show close agreement with prior analyses of critical speeds, demonstrate the ease with which the method may be applied.


1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-R. Chen ◽  
L. M. Keer

Transverse bending vibrations of a rotating twisted beam subjected to an axial load and spinning about its axial axis are established by using the Timoshenko beam theory and applying Hamilton’s Principle. The equations of motion of the twisted beam are derived in the twist nonorthogonal coordinate system. The finite element method is employed to discretize the equations of motion into time-dependent ordinary differential equations that have gyroscopic terms. A symmetric general eigenvalue problem is formulated and used to study the influence of the twist angle, rotational speed, and axial force on the natural frequencies of Timoshenko beams. The present model is useful for the parametric studies to understand better the various dynamic aspects of the beam structure affecting its vibration behavior.


2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horng-Jou Wang ◽  
Lien-Wen Chen

The axisymmetric dynamic stability of rotating sandwich circular plates with a constrained damping layer subjected to a periodic uniform radial loading along the outer edge of the host plate is studied in the present paper. The viscoelastic material in middle layer is assumed to be frequency dependent and incompressible, and complex representations of moduli are used. Equations of motion of the system are derived by the finite element method where the geometry stiffness matrices induced by rotation and external load are evaluated from solutions of static problems. Bolotin’s method is employed to determine the regions of dynamic instability while the eigenvalue problems with frequency dependent parameters are solved by the modified complex eigensolution method. Numerical results show that the effects of constrained damping layer tend to stabilize the circular plate system and the widths of unstable regions decrease with increasing of rotational speeds.


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