Transverse Vibration of a Rectangularly Orthotropic Spinning Disk, Part 2: Forced Vibration and Critical Speeds

The transverse forced vibration of a rectangularly orthotropic spinning disk is investigated. The disk is subjected to a constant stationary point-load. Although the deflection of an isotropic disk under these loading conditions is time-invariant in a space-fixed coordinate system, the orthotropic disk undergoes time-dependent oscillatory motion. This phenomenon occurs as a result of the continually changing orientation of material properties with respect to the load. The disk deflection under-the-load is determined as a function of time. Also the deflection along a disk radius and circle containing the load are determined at a fixed instant of time. The occurrence of critical speeds is also investigated. Without damping, virtually any angular speed of the orthotropic disk is found to be critical. This behavior is due to the occurrence of more than one Fourier component in each of the eigenfunctions of the free vibration problem. With damping included, a large amplitude response is found at a speed much less than the lowest classical critical speed of an isotropic disk.

Transverse Vibration of a Rectangularly Orthotropic Spinning Disk, Part 1: Formulation and Free Vibration

The transverse vibration of a spinning circular disk with rectangular orthotropy is investigated. Two dimensionless parameters are established in order to characterize the degree of disk anisotropy and solutions are sought for a range of these parameters. The orthotropic bending stiffness is transferred into polar coordinates and is found to differ from a classical formulation for a stationary disk. A Fourier series expansion is used in the circumferential direction. Unlike the isotropic disk, the Fourier components determining the transverse vibration modes of the orthotropic disk do not separate. This condition results in an eigenvalue problem involving a coupled set of ordinary differential equations which are solved by a combination of numerical integration and iteration. Thus the natural frequencies and normal modes of vibration are determined. Because each eigenfunction contains contributions from more than one Fourier component, the normal modes do not possess distinct nodal diameters or nodal circles. Furthermore, disk orthotropy causes the natural frequencies corresponding to the sine and cosine modes to split; the degree of splitting decreases as the rotational speed increases.