On the nonlinear oscillations of a horizontally supported Jeffcott rotor with a nonlinear restoring force

This paper deals with the vibration analysis of a horizontally supported Jeffcott rotor system. Both nonlinear restoring force and the rotor weight are considered in the system modeling. The model shows a small difference between the natural frequencies of the vertical and horizontal mode. The multiple scales perturbation technique is utilized to obtain a second-order approximate solution at the simultaneous resonance case. The bifurcation analyses are conducted. The stability of the obtained solution is investigated by applying Lyapunov first method. The influences of all the parameters on the system behavior are explored. The Effect of both the negative and positive values of the nonlinear stiffness coefficient is studied. At the large rotor eccentricity, the analysis revealed the following: (1) the existence of three different stable solutions in an interval of the rotational speed. (2) The disk exposed to two consecutive jumps if its speed crossed the resonant speed. (3) For a soft spring, localized and nonlocalized oscillation in both the horizontal and vertical mode occurs. (4) For a hard spring, nonlocalized oscillation occurs in the two directions in addition to the localized motion in the vertical direction only (5) The system is very sensitive to initial conditions. Then, numerical simulations are performed to confirm the accuracy of the approximate results. It is found that the predictions from the analytical solutions are in a good agreement with the numerical simulations. Finally, a comparison with previously published work is included.