Research Article

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

Figure 9

The lowest five mode shapes of the free-free PN-taper shaft with taper ratio (cf. case 2 of Table 1): (a) for the bare shaft (without any attachment, cf. Figure 3); (b) for the loaded shaft (carrying 5 rigid disks and 5 torsional springs as shown in Figure 8).
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(a)
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(b)