Research Article

Torsional Vibrations of a Conic Shaft with Opposite Tapers Carrying Arbitrary Concentrated Elements

Figure 7

The lowest five mode shapes of the free-free P-taper shaft with taper ratio (cf. case 2 of Table 1): (a) for the bare shaft (without any attachments as shown in Figure 1); (b) for the loaded shaft (carrying 3 rigid disks and 3 torsional springs as shown in Figure 6(c)).
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(a)
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(b)