Experimental analysis of transverse vibration in thermally stressed rotating discs

Abstract Details and results are presented of an experimental analysis of the natural frequencies of free transverse vibration of two annular discs subjected to the combined action of centrifugal and thermal stressing. One disc is of constant thickness form, whilst the other is of linearly varying thickness form. The results obtained experimentally are subsequently compared with those as predicted by a finite element technique previously described by the first two authors. In general the comparisons are found to be favourable, when account is taken of the sources of error in the experimental analysis.