Vibration of a mistuned three-bladed rotor under regular and chaotic excitations

Abstract

This study considers forced vibrations of a rotating structure consisting of a rigid hub and three flexible beams. The blades are nominally made of a multilayered laminate with a specific stacking sequence resulting in full isotropic macroscopic material behaviour. However, in the performed analysis it is assumed that the rotor has been mistuned because of manufacturing tolerances of the composite material. These inaccuracies are represented by deviations of reinforcing fibres orientations from their nominal values. The considered tolerances break the intended macroscopic material isotropy and make the laminate to exhibit the fully orthotropic behaviour. Based on previous authors research, the system of four mutually coupled dimensionless ordinary differential governing equations is adopted. Forced responses of the system under regular and chaotic excitations are investigated.