Forced Vibration Analysis of Spinning Disks Subjected to Transverse Loads

Forced vibration of a rotating disk subjected to a stationary transverse load is studied in this paper. Time and frequency responses are obtained and effects of the rotating speed on the natural frequencies are evaluated. Finite element method (FEM) is employed as the solution technique and natural frequencies are obtained for different speeds. Forced vibration is then considered and disk responses are determined using the Galerkin method. The solution is determined in two different coordinate systems. In the first one, the disk is assumed to be rotating in an inertial coordinate system, while in the second coordinate system, a rotating peripheral force is applied on a stationary disk. The objective here in this paper is to compare the two modeling scenarios and is to find limiting range of the rotational speed for employing the stationary coordinate system.