Natural transverse vibrations of a rotating rod

We study the natural transverse vibration frequencies and modes of a rod rotating about an axis fixed at an end of the rod. The cases of low, moderately high, and asymptotically high angular velocities are considered. The case of a homogeneous rod with clamped left and free right end is considered in detail. A new constructive algorithm based on the notion of “sagittary function” is used to find the dependences of the natural frequencies and mode shapes on the angular velocity for lower vibration modes. We establish evolution to the model corresponding to vibrations of a rapidly rotating thread subjected to the centrifugal inertial forces. It is shown that the natural frequencies grow practically linearly with increasing angular rotation velocity. The results obtained can be of interest in technical applications, e.g., when studying vibrations of sensor elements in high-precision instruments or of rapidly rotating elongated mechanism elements (turbine or propeller blades, etc).