Abstract

The state of stability of a rotating viscoelastic cantilever beam subjected to a transverse follower force applied at its free end in the plane of rotation is determined by a method of approximation that is based upon an adjoint variational principle. Particular attention is devoted to the determination of the dependence of the critical flutter load of the system on the transverse, twisting, and rotary inertia properties of a mass capping the free end of the beam. The equations of motion are derived from a conservation law, the adjoint boundary value problem is introduced, and an approximate stability determinant is developed from the variational principle upon assuming a set of coordinate functions which satisfy a selected set of boundary conditions. The stability determinant is solved numerically for a variety of choices of values for the internal damping, the hub radius, tip mass inertia, the rotational speed, and warping rigidity parameters, and several graphs are presented to show the influence of these parameters upon the value of the critical flutter load.

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