Flexural–flexural–extensional–torsional vibration analysis of composite spinning shafts with geometrical nonlinearity

In this paper, nonlinear dynamics of an unbalanced composite spinning shaft are studied. Extensional–flexural–flexural–torsional equations of motion are derived via utilizing the three-dimensional constitutive relations of the material and Hamilton’s principle. The gyroscopic effects, rotary inertia and coupling due to material anisotropy are included, while the shear deformation is neglected. To analyze the rotor dynamic behavior, the full form of the equations without any simplification assumption (e.g., stretching or shortening assumption) is used. The method of multiple scales is applied to the discretized equations. An analytical expression as a function of the system parameters describing the forced vibration of a spinning composite shaft in the neighborhood of the primary resonance is obtained. The discretization is done with both one and two modes, and the results are compared. It is shown that although the excitation is tuned in the neighborhood of the first mode, one-mode discretization is not sufficient and it leads to inaccurate results. It shows the necessity of employing at least two modes in discretization due to the coupling in the equations. The effects of the external damping, eccentricity and the lamination angle on the vibration amplitude are investigated. In addition, the effect of the extensional–torsional coupling on the frequency response curves is investigated. To validate the perturbation results, numerical simulation is used.