Abstract
This paper studies the vibrational behaviour of a rotating disk with a radially or circumferentially oriented crack. The disk rotates with a constant angular speed. To treat this problem, the finite element method is employed. The disk is discretised into finite elements, and the crack is considered as nonpropagating and always open. The solutions to this problem's governing equations yield the natural frequencies and mode shapes. The frequency response due to dynamic loading is also yielded to determine the crack's effect on the frequency domain. For both crack orientations, parametric studies are conducted to investigate the sensitivity of the vibrational behaviour to the disk's angular speed and radial crack length or circumferential crack angle and distance from the disk's centre. The accuracy of the results is validated through comparisons with results available from the literature.
1. Introduction
Rotating disks are the principal components in various rotating machinery applications, such as turbine blades, circular saws, and computer memory disks. The occurrence of cracks in a rotating disk induces local variations in the stiffness, the magnitude of which mainly depends on the location and depth of the cracks. These variations, in turn, have a significant effect on the vibrational behaviour of the entire rotating machinery. To ensure safe operation of rotating machinery, it is extremely important to know whether the components (such as the rotating disks) are free of cracks and to assess their extent if present. The procedures that are often used for detection are direct procedures, such as ultrasound, X-rays, and so forth. However, these methods have proven to be inoperative and unsuitable in certain cases because they require expensive and minutely detailed inspections. To avoid these disadvantages, during the last decades, researchers have focused on developing more efficient procedures for crack detection that are based on changes in the vibrational characteristics (natural frequencies, mode shapes, and modal damping values) introduced by the crack [1]. Different techniques to model a crack in these procedures are presented by Dimarogonas [2].
Several studies have focused on the vibrational behaviour of uncracked rotating disks. As early as 1921, Lamb and Southwell [3] determined the natural frequencies of a flexible rotating disk, which neglected the bending effects. Kirkhope and Wilson [4] calculated the natural frequencies of a thin axisymmetric rotating disk by employing efficient annular finite elements. Liang et al. [5] investigated the natural frequencies of a spinning polar orthotropic disk that was subjected to a stationary concentrated transverse load. Chung et al. [6] analysed the nonlinear dynamic response of a flexible spinning disk with angular acceleration. In later works, Chung and his coworkers [7, 8] studied the effects of misalignment between the axes of symmetry and rotation on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a flexible rotating disk. Baddour and Zu [9] presented and analysed an approximate solution to the nonlinear coupled vibrations of a spinning disk, which included the in-plane inertia of the disk. Bashmal et al. [10] investigated the natural frequencies and mode shapes for the in-plane vibration of a circular disk under combinations of all possible classical boundary conditions. Ranjan and Ghosh [11] studied the effect of discrete point masses and distributed patches of masses on the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and response due to an external excitation for the case of a spinning disk.
The problem of a rotating disk with a crack has attracted the interest of several researchers. Rooke and Tweed [12] considered the elastic problem of a finite rotating elastic disk with a radial crack. The stress intensity factor and crack energy were determined in terms of a solution to the Fredholm integral equation. Smith [13] calculated the stress intensity factors of an arc crack in a rotating disk by using two distinct boundary element approaches. Schneider and Danzer [14] employed a closed-form weight function to calculate the stress intensity factor of an edge crack in a finite elastic disk. Shariati et al. [15] developed a formula to predict the stress intensity factor of a radial crack in a rotating disk. Jia and Lee [16] presented an analytical relation between the distributed imperfections (nonuniform thickness, density, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and the odd distribution of internal stresses) of a rotating circular disk and the resulting split modes. Raman and Mote [17] studied experimentally the nonlinear vibrations of an imperfect disk that was spinning near critical speed. Gyekenyesi and his coworkers [18, 19] presented a vibration-based crack detection method for rotating disks. They considered that the presence of a crack distorts the strain field within the disk. Consequently, measurable deformation in the disk’s geometry and a corresponding change in the system’s centre of mass occurred. However, the results show this study’s failure to identify the existence of the crack. Based on the above-cited references, a limited number of studies are available in the literature on the vibrational behaviour of cracked rotating disks.
This study constitutes a primary approach for the vibrational behaviour of a cracked disk that is rotating with a constant angular speed. The radially or circumferentially oriented crack (through the full thickness of the disk) is considered to be nonpropagating and always open, whereas the disk is discretised into finite elements. Based on Lagrange’s equation, the finite element equations of this model are obtained. The effect of Coriolis term, proportional to angular speed, on the disk vibrational behavior is not significant, since it is assumed that the disk does not rotate at very high speeds. For reasons of solution simplicity, the Coriolis term is neglected in this study. The governing equations of this linear vibrational problem are expressed in time domain, since neither crack detection techniques nor signal analysis is involved in this study. The main objective of this study is to investigate the difference of vibrational behaviour between the uncracked and cracked disk. Based on the eigenvalue and harmonic analyses, the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and frequency response due to dynamic loading are obtained. Although it is not the main objective of this study, stability analysis is performed and the critical speed is extracted. For both crack orientations, parametric studies are carried out to investigate the sensitivity of the natural frequencies, mode shapes with respect to the disk’s angular speed and radial crack length or circumferential crack angle and distance from the disk’s centre. The influence of crack’s characteristics (orientation, position, and depth) on the critical speed is also studied. The accuracy of the results is demonstrated through comparisons with results available in the literature. Observations are made to determine the utility of this method in crack detection techniques.
2. Finite Element Procedure
The following discussion considers a cracked disk that rotates with a constant angular speed. The disk’s material properties are considered to be linear elastic, and the displacements and strains are assumed to be small. The crack is considered as nonpropagating and always open, and the disk is discretised into a set of conventional finite elements. The equations of this problem are formulated based on the well-known generalised problem of rotating bladed disks [20]. For reasons of completeness, this generalised problem is briefly presented below and adapted to the present study by ignoring any nonlinearities due to the rotating blades.
Figure 1 illustrates a disk that is clamped at the inner radius and free at the outer radius . The disk contains a radial or circumferential crack through the full thickness of the disk. The radial crack has length and terminates at the outer radius of the disk. The internal circumferential crack subtends an angle and is located at a distance from the disk’s centre. The morphology of the disk model is designed in a way that allows for changes in crack geometry. Thus, by considering the radial crack length or circumferential crack angle and the distance as global design variables, parametric studies are possible. The disk rotates about the axis of an inertial coordinate system with a constant angular speed (Figure 1). The inertial co-ordinate system is fixed to the disk’s centre. The and axes lie along the horizontal and vertical symmetry axes of the disk, respectively, and the axis is perpendicular to the disk (Figure 1). The crack is considered to be nonpropagating and always open. The domain of the disk is discretised into a layer of three-dimensional finite elements. Figure 2 shows the finite element meshes for a disk with a radial or circumferential crack. For both crack orientations, the disk is discretised into eight-node isoparametric hexahedral finite elements. Each node of such an element has three degrees of freedom that represent the nodal displacements along the three dimensions. Similar finite element meshes have been developed for all of the considered crack cases in this study.
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Consider an element in the finite element mesh shown in Figure 2. The position vector , displacement vector , and velocity vector of a material point that is located in the element are [21] as follows: where is the shape function matrix, is the element’s nodal coordinates vector, is the element’s nodal displacement vector, and is the element’s nodal velocity vector. The vectors and matrix of (1) are defined with respect to a local co-ordinate system () that rotates about the axis. The vectors , , and are of order 24, and the matrix is of order .
The corresponding strain vector and stress vector of the material point are as follows [21]: where is the strain-displacement matrix of order , and is material stiffness matrix of order .
The absolute velocity of the material point is given by the following [20]: where
The kinetic energy of the element is as follows: where is the material density, and is the volume of the element. By substituting (3) and (1) into (5), the kinetic energy can be written as follows: where .
The potential energy of the element is as follows: By substituting (2) into (7), the potential energy can be written as follows:
To derive the linear dynamic equations at the elemental level, Lagrange’s equation is employed: By considering that the matrix is time independent and by substituting (6) and (8) into (9), the equations of motion at the elemental level can be written in compact form where is the element’s mass matrix, is the element’s nodal acceleration vector, is the element’s Coriolis damping matrix, is the element’s stiffness matrix, is the element’s centrifugal stiffness matrix, is the element’s rotational force vector, and is the element’s external load vector. The matrices of (10) have dimensions of , and the vectors have a dimension of 24. The matrices and vector definitions of (10) are as follows:
After assembly and without considering the slight effect of structural damping, the equilibrium equations that govern the linear dynamic response of the discretised cracked rotating disk are as follows: where is the global mass matrix, is the global Coriolis damping matrix, is the global stiffness matrix, is the global centrifugal stiffness matrix, is the global acceleration vector, is the global velocity vector, is the global displacement vector, is the global rotational force vector, and is the global external load vector. The definitions of these global matrices and vectors are as follows: where represents the global matrices and vectors of (12), denotes the corresponding matrices and vectors of (10), stands for the assembly operator, and represents the number of discretised elements. The global matrices and vectors of (12) have dimensions and , respectively, where denotes the degrees of freedom of the finite element mesh. Because vector is time independent, it is moved to the right side of (12) and is treated as an external force. Furthermore, it is assumed that the disk does not rotate at very high angular speed (two times the first natural frequency of stationary disk). Thus, the influence of Coriolis term, , on (12) is not significant [22, 23]. To simplify the solution of (12), the Coriolis term is ignored. Based on the above, (12) can be written as follows: where . To derive the frequency response from (14), harmonic analysis is performed [24].
Based on (14), the free vibration problem of the discretised cracked rotating disk is described as follows: To solve (15), eigenvalue analysis is performed [24]. Thus, the mode shapes with nodal circles and nodal diameters as well as the corresponding circular frequencies of vibration (rad/sec) are obtained. Subscript denotes the cracked state of the disk. The natural frequencies are defined as . For reasons of simplicity, the solutions to (14) and (15) are implemented by using finite element codes.
3. Numerical Results and Discussions
In this section, the proposed study is applied to the disk model of Figure 1. This model has inner radius , outer radius , thickness , modulus of elasticity , mass density , and Poisson’s ratio . The selected model’s geometric and material properties correspond to the properties of a commercial cutting disk. Parametric studies implemented to investigate the sensitivity of the vibrational behaviour with respect to the disk’s angular speed (varied from 0 Hz to 100 Hz with an increment of 8.33 Hz) and radial crack’s dimensionless length (varied from 0.15 to 0.9 with an increment 0.15) or circumferential crack’s angle (varied from 12° to 36° with an increment 6°) and dimensionless distance (varied from 0.2 to 0.8 with an increment 0.2). The influence of crack’s characteristics (orientation, position, and depth) on the critical speed is also investigated. As previously mentioned, the disk is discretised into eight-node isoparametric hexahedral finite elements. Two typical meshes are illustrated in Figure 2: the first mesh is a radially cracked disk of , and the second mesh is a circumferentially cracked disk of and . For all of the crack cases in this study, the disk’s finite element meshes are composed of approximately the same number of nodes and elements. For example, when the disk contains a radial crack of , the finite element mesh consists of eight-node isoparametric hexahedral finite elements and nodes. For the uncracked disk, the finite element mesh is composed of eight-node isoparametric hexahedral finite elements and nodes. Convergence studies show that finer finite element meshes affect the results less than 1%. The solution to (15) yields the mode shapes and the associated natural frequencies for the cracked rotating disk. In this study, the four lower natural frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes are considered where and .
Based on the deformed mesh of the employed finite element codes, the mode shapes , , and of the radially cracked rotating disk were observed to split into two different frequencies. One frequency corresponds to the symmetric mode shapes about the plane of the inertia co-ordinate system and the other to the antisymmetric mode shapes about the same plane. The mode shape appears symmetric about the plane and possesses a single natural frequency. Thus, the radial crack plays a role of asymmetry, in some, but not all mode shapes of the disk. More detailed discussions about the symmetric and asymmetric mode shapes can be found in [25]. For example, Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6 illustrate the mode shapes of the disk with a radial crack of and Hz. For the circumferentially cracked rotating disk, the mode shapes , , and possess two identical natural frequencies, and the mode shape possesses a single natural frequency. All of these mode shapes are symmetric about the plane. The solution to equation (14) provides the frequency response of the cracked rotating disk due to transverse impulse loading of that was applied at point , which is located at the outer radius of the disk. Initially, the disk is stationary and undeformed. The transverse acceleration response at node is extracted. The later node is located on the disk’s outer diameter and is diametrically opposite from . For verification, the stationary cracked, stationary uncracked, and rotating uncracked disks are considered. The eigenproblem and linear dynamic problem for the stationary cracked disk are described by (15) and (14), respectively, by neglecting any terms that are related to the rotation of the disk, , and are solved as the corresponding problems of the cracked rotating disk. The derived mode shapes for both crack orientations appear either symmetric or antisymmetric about the plane as the corresponding mode shapes of the rotating cracked disk. Comparisons show that the mode shapes of the stationary cracked disk have similar forms to the corresponding mode shapes of the rotating cracked disk. The values of the natural frequencies for the stationary cracked disk are lower than the values of the rotating cracked disk. The equations that govern the eigenproblem and the linear dynamic problem of the rotating uncracked disk are of the same type as (15) and (14), respectively, and are solved as the cracked rotating disk. Any difference with respect to (15) and (14) caused due to the uncracked disk’s finite element mesh data (number of nodes and elements). By neglecting any terms that are related to the rotation of the uncracked disk in this problem, , the equations for the stationary uncracked disk are obtained. For both stationary and rotating uncracked disks, the symmetric mode shapes , , and possess two identical natural frequencies, whereas the symmetric mode shape possesses a single natural frequency. The mode shapes of the rotating uncracked disk have similar form to the mode shapes of the stationary uncracked disk. The values of the natural frequencies for the stationary uncracked disk are lower than the values of the rotating uncracked disk. Since the implementation of very expensive and time-consuming experiments is out of the scope of this study, the results presented below are compared with any numerical results available from the literature and analytical results. An accuracy study is performed for the stationary uncracked disk. The natural frequencies , which were obtained from the corresponding eigenproblem, are 66, 54.2, 87.3 and 193.2 Hz for and , respectively. Subscript denotes the stationary uncracked disk. Comparisons are performed with the corresponding analytical natural frequencies [26], where represents the analytical results. The absolute percentage differences of these natural frequencies lie between 0.1% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape and 0.2% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape . Thus, the results of this study are very close to the analytical ones. This accuracy study was also performed by using , which are the natural frequencies obtained from the transverse acceleration frequency response. Comparisons are performed with the analytical natural frequencies noted above. The absolute percentage differences of these natural frequencies lie between 0.8% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape and 2.9% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape . Thus, the results that were obtained by using the frequency response are close to the analytical values. Comparisons with the previous study show that the accuracy of the natural frequencies, which were obtained with the eigenproblem, is higher than those obtained from frequency response. An accuracy study has also been performed for the rotating uncracked disk, since, according to the author’s knowledge, no results are available in the literature related to the vibrational behaviour of a cracked rotating disk. Based on the corresponding eigenproblem, the three lower natural frequencies ( and ) of the uncracked disk rotating at Hz are 95, 103.4 and 154.5 Hz, respectively. Comparisons are performed with the analytical results of [27]. The absolute percentage differences of these symmetric natural frequencies lie between 3.3% for the natural frequency of mode shape and 4.9% for the natural frequency of mode shape . Thus, the results of this study are in good agreement with analytical results.
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3.1. Stationary Disk
Figure 7 illustrates the variations in the stationary disk’s natural frequencies for , with a radial crack length of . As it is expected [28], the presented natural frequencies decrease as the crack length increases. For small values of crack depth (), the natural frequencies generally change slightly. For , the natural frequencies of symmetric mode shapes and appear to have higher values than the corresponding natural frequencies of the antisymmetric mode shapes and . On the contrary, for , the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape has a lower value than the corresponding natural frequency of the antisymmetric mode shape . It also seems from Figure 7 that the natural frequencies of the antisymmetric mode shapes and are generally the most sensitive frequencies to variations in the crack length, whereas the natural frequency of the antisymmetric mode shape is less sensitive. Table 1 shows the four lower natural frequencies for a free-free stationary disk with a radial crack of . To obtain these results, the disk model of Figure 1 is slightly modified so that the boundary conditions at the inner radius are free. This problem is treated as the problem of the clamped-free stationary cracked disk. From Table 1, it seems that the results of this study are generally in good agreement with the corresponding numerical results that are reported in [28]. It is clarified that the results presented below are referred to the clamped-free disk of Figure 1. Based on the corresponding eigenproblem, the natural frequencies , for , have also been calculated for a stationary disk with a circumferential crack. For all of the considered circumferential cracks in this study, all of the dimensionless natural frequencies () approach one. Similar conclusions are reported in the literature, even for a crack of angle that is located at different positions on the disk [29]. Comparisons show that the mode shapes of the uncracked disk have similar forms to the corresponding mode shapes of the circumferentially cracked disk.
Figure 8 depicts the transverse acceleration frequency responses for the stationary disk with a radial crack of two different lengths. For clarity, the corresponding response of the stationary uncracked disk is not plotted in this figure. However, in this and other similar figures presented below, the three vertical dashed lines represent the loci of the two identical natural frequencies for symmetric mode shapes , and of the stationary uncracked disk, and the solid line is the loci of the corresponding single natural frequency for the symmetric mode shape . These natural frequencies are evaluated from the transverse acceleration frequency response and are 54.1, 87.9, 187.4 for mode shapes , , and and 66.5 Hz for mode shape . The transverse acceleration frequency response for exhibits four peaks that correspond to the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shapes , , , and , respectively. The corresponding peaks for appear at lower values of the frequencies. Thus, the increase in the radial crack length causes the natural frequency to decrease. Similar conclusions were extracted from the eigenvalue analysis of Figure 7. It is also visible from Figure 8 that the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shapes , , and for both values of the crack length are lower than the frequencies of the corresponding mode shapes for the stationary uncracked disk. Based on Figure 8, the absolute percentage differences in the natural frequencies for the two different values of the crack length lie between 2.7% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape and 6.9% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape . From the eigenvalue analysis of Figure 7, these absolute percentage differences lie between 4.7% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape and 7.1% for the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape . Thus, the results that were obtained from the frequency response are in good agreement with the results from the eigenvalue analysis. The peak, which is marked in Figure 8 with the symbol ¤, denotes the natural frequencies of the antisymmetric mode shape for . The transverse acceleration frequency response has also been evaluated for the case of a stationary disk with a circumferential crack. For all of the considered circumferential crack cases in this study, the presence of the crack very slightly affects all of the frequencies. Similar conclusions where reported above from the eigenvalue analysis.
3.2. Rotating Disk
Figure 9 presents the variation of the natural frequencies , , , in terms of the angular speed for a disk with a radial crack of . It seems that for all of the considered angular speed values, the natural frequencies of this figure increase with the angular speed. Based on (4), (11b), (13) and (15), it is deduced that the global centrifugal stiffness matrix is proportional to the second-order angular speed and is always negative. Thus, the presence of this negative term in the (15) increases the structural stiffness matrix causing in turn an increase of the natural frequencies with angular speed. Similar conclusions concerning the effect of the global centrifugal stiffness matrix are reported in literature [11, 30]. Figure 9 shows that the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shape appear to have the highest value in comparison to the other frequencies in this figure. Furthermore, the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shapes and get higher values than the corresponding values of antisymmetric mode shapes and . On the contrary, the values of natural frequencies for both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes nearly coincide. The dotted lines in Figure 9 are described by equations , where represents the number of nodal diameters for mode shape . The critical speed for a mode shape corresponds to the value of at which the line intersects with the natural frequency curve of mode shape [7, 31]. It is observed from Figure 9 that the curves of both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes do not intersect with the line of . Thus, there are no critical speeds corresponding to both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes . The critical speeds for symmetric mode shapes , and are 63 Hz and 50 Hz, respectively. The corresponding critical speeds for antisymmetric mode shapes , and are 47 Hz and 40 Hz, respectively. The same study has been implemented to extract the critical speeds for all considered values of radial crack length, , in this study (Figure 10). For all these values of crack length, there is no critical speed corresponding to both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes . Figure 10 depicts the critical speeds of both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes and versus radial crack length. It is observed that for , the critical speed corresponding to the symmetric mode shape has highest value in comparison to the other critical speeds in this figure. For , the values of critical speed for symmetric mode shape are higher than the corresponding values of antisymmetric mode shape . The differences between the values of these critical speeds increase as the radial crack length increases. Similar conclusions are extracted for the values and differences of critical speed corresponding to symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes , when . In what follows, the effect of the radial crack length of the natural frequencies of the rotating disk is studied. Figures 11 and 12 depict the variation in the four lower natural frequencies for , in terms of the angular speed for three different values of the radial crack length . It is visible from Figure 11(a) that for Hz, the natural frequency of the symmetric mode shape for gets higher values than the corresponding natural frequencies for and . At Hz, and the natural frequencies for all of the considered radial crack length values meet and become 1.1 times greater than the corresponding natural frequency of the stationary uncracked disk. For , the values of the natural frequency for are higher than the frequency values for and . From Figure 11(b), it seems that the natural frequencies for and that correspond to the symmetric, and antisymmetric mode shapes nearly coincide. It also presented that for , the values of the natural frequencies for antisymmetric mode shape are higher than the corresponding values of the symmetric mode shape . The difference between the values of these two natural frequencies decreases slightly as the angular speed increases. For Hz, the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shape for and appear to have the highest value in comparison to the other frequencies in this figure, whereas for Hz, the antisymmetric mode shape for has the highest value. Based on Figure 12(a), it is observed that for , the natural frequencies for both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes get higher values than the corresponding frequencies for and . Also, for , the natural frequencies for the symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes coincide. For and , the natural frequency values for the symmetric mode shape are higher than the corresponding values for the antisymmetric mode shape . For , the differences between the frequencies of the antisymmetric and symmetric mode shapes are nearly constant in terms of the angular speed, whereas the differences for decrease as the angular speed increases. Figure 12(b) shows that for , the natural frequencies for both the symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes nearly coincide and get higher values than the corresponding frequencies for and . The natural frequencies for the symmetric mode shape of and get higher values than the corresponding natural frequencies of the antisymmetric mode shape . The differences between the values of the natural frequencies for the antisymmetric and symmetric mode shape for both and decrease slightly as the angular speed increases. Figure 13 illustrates the transverse acceleration frequency responses for a disk with a radial crack of two different lengths. For each crack case, two different values of the angular speed are considered. Figure 13(a) shows that the transverse acceleration frequency response for Hz appears to have four peaks that correspond to the symmetric natural frequencies of mode shapes , , , and , respectively. The corresponding peaks for Hz appear at higher frequency values. Thus, the increase in the angular speed causes increase in the natural frequencies. Similar conclusions were obtained from the eigenvalue analysis illustrated in Figures 11 and 12. Based on Figure 13(a), the absolute percentage differences in the natural frequencies for the two different angular speed values are 12.9%, 6.4%, 10.7%, and 3.9% for the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shapes , , , and , respectively. For both angular speeds, the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shapes differ with the corresponding frequencies of the stationary uncracked disk, which are shown in this figure by the vertical lines. The same study is implemented by considering a high crack length value (). Based on Figure 13(b), it seems that the increase in angular speed causes increase in the natural frequencies for the symmetric mode shapes , , , and . The absolute percentage differences in the natural frequencies for the two different values of the angular speed are 14.9%, 12.1%, 8.3%, and 3% for the natural frequencies of the symmetric mode shapes , , , and , respectively. The natural frequency of the antisymmetric mode shape , which is marked in Figure 13(b) with symbol ¤, also increases as the angular speed increases. The absolute percentage difference in this frequency for both values of the angular speed is 3.4%. The above study has also been implemented for the circumferentially cracked disk. It was deduced that the natural frequencies with , , which were obtained from the eigenproblem, are unaffected by the variation of the circumferential crack’s angle and dimensionless distance . For all considered values of angular speed in this study, the values of natural frequencies of a circumferentially cracked disk are very close to the corresponding values of the uncracked rotating disk. Similar conclusions related to the values of natural frequencies were extracted from the transverse acceleration frequency response. Comparisons show that the mode shapes of the rotating disk with a circumferential crack have similar forms to the corresponding mode shapes of the rotating uncracked disk. Figure 14 shows the variation in the natural frequencies with the angular speed for a disk with a circumferential crack of and . It seems that for all of the considered angular speed values, the natural frequencies of this figure increase with the angular speed. The values of the natural frequency for the mode shape are higher than the frequencies of the other mode shapes, whereas the natural frequency of mode shape gets the lowest values. The critical speeds were extracted based on the approach employed above for the radially cracked disk. It was observed that, critical speeds exist only for the mode shapes and . For all considered values of circumferential crack’s angle and dimensionless distance, the critical speeds are 67 Hz and 87 Hz, respectively. These values nearly coincide with the results of Figure 10 corresponding to rotating uncracked disk ().
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4. Conclusions
This study constitutes a primary approach for the vibrational behaviour of a constantly rotating disk with a radial or circumferential crack. The disk is discretised into finite elements, and the crack is considered as nonpropagating and always open. Based on the eigenvalue and harmonic analyses, the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and frequency response due to dynamic loading are yielded. For both crack orientations, parametric studies are conducted to investigate the sensitivity of the vibrational behaviour to the disk’s angular speed and radial crack length or circumferential angle and distance from the disk’s centre. The influence of crack characteristics (position, depth, and distance) on the critical speed is also studied. The accuracy of the results is demonstrated through comparisons with numerical results available in the literature and analytical results. It was deduced that for the rotating disk with a radial crack the natural frequency for mode shapes , , and split into two frequencies. One frequency corresponds to the symmetric mode shapes and the other to the antisymmetric mode shapes. The mode shape appears symmetric and possesses a single natural frequency. Natural frequencies of both symmetric and antisymmetric mode shape are affected only by high values of radial length. The remaining natural frequencies are sensitive to the changes of radial length. For all considered crack cases in this study, the natural frequencies increase within the considered range of angular speed values. Critical speeds appear for the symmetric and antisymmetric mode shapes and which decrease as the radial crack length increases. For the rotating disk with a circumferential crack, all the mode shapes are symmetric and have the same form with the corresponding mode shapes of the uncracked rotating disk. Two identical natural frequencies correspond to the mode shapes , , and while a single natural frequency to the mode shape . The values of all considered natural frequencies are unaffected by circumferential crack’s angle and dimensionless distance. For all considered values of angular speed in this study, the values of natural frequencies for the circumferentially cracked disk are very close to the corresponding values of the uncracked rotating disk. The existing critical speeds for mode shapes and are very close to those of uncracked rotating disk. Based on the above mentioned conclusions, it is believed that this study can be used as complementary tool for crack detection techniques. Furthermore, this study can be extended to consider the Coriolis effects and very high values of angular speeds. These issues are under investigation and will be the subject of future studies of the authors.