Closed-Form Forced Response of a Damped, Rotating, Multiple Disks/Spindle System (Q4363441)

The author studies forced vibrations of a rotating disk/spindle system consisting of multiple flexible circular disks clamped to a rigid spindle supported by two flexible bearings. In particular, the disk/spindle system is subjected to prescribed translational base excitations and to externally applied loads. Because of the bearing flexibility, the rigid spindle undergoes infinitesimal rigid-body rocking and translation simultaneously. To model real vibration response that has finite resonance amplitudes, the disks and the bearings are assumed to be viscously damped. Then the author derives the equations of motion through the use of Rayleigh dissipation function and Lagrange's equations. The equations of motion include three sets of matrix differential equations: one for the rigid-body rocking of the spindle and one-nodal-diameter disk model, one for the axial translations of the spindle and axisymmetric disk modes, and one for disk modes with two or more nodal diameters. Each matrix differential equation contains either a gyroscopic matrix or a damping matrix, or both. The causal Green's function of each matrix differential equation is determined explicitly in closed form through matrix inversions and inverse Laplace transforms. Closed-form forced response of the damped rotating disk/spindle system is then obtained from the causal Green's function and from generalized forces by using convolution integrals. Finally, responses of a disk/spindle system subjected to a concentrated sinusoidal load or to an impulsive load are given numerically as an example.