Thermally induced, nonlinear vibrations of rotating disks (Q5960039)

Natural frequencies of nonlinear free vibrations of heated rotating disks are presented analytically taking into account the nonuniform temperature distribution due to laminar or turbulent air flows induced by the disk rotation. The nonuniform temperature distribution on the disk is highly dependent on its rotation speed. The authors calculate natural frequencies for symmetric and asymmetric responses of a 3.5 inch diameter computer memory disk. When the disk is heated, its stiffness becomes larger for two lowest nodal diameter numbers, and smaller for other nodal diameter numbers. Thus the vibrations of heated rotating disks for the higher nodal diameter numbers may be induced more easily than for the cooled one. The nonlinear results reduce to well-known results for linear vibrations when the nonlinear effects vanish.