Whirling is defined as the rotation of the plane made by the bent shaft and the line of centers of the bearing. The phenomenon of whirling of shaft is often explained in terms of a “Jeffcott rotor model”. The Jeffcott rotor ...

Vibration of a superelastic Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)cantilever beam has been analyzed comprehensively considering end-shortening effect, geometric non-linearity and effect of material non-linearity (that is, the beam ...