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Effects of Damping and Circulatory Forces on Dynamic

Instability of Gyroscopic Conservative Continuous
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Rong C. Shieh

MRJ , INC , FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, 22030

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J. STRUCT. MECH., 11(2), 197-213 (1983)

Effects of Damping and Circulatory Forces

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on Dynamic Instability of Gyroscopic

Conservative Continuous Systems
Rong C. Shieh
MRJ, INC.
FAIRFAX,
VIRGINIA
22030

ABSTRACT

The title problem is studied, with emphasis on the small damping and
circulatory force case. It is shown that small internal and/or external damping
forces and/or small (as well as large) circulatory forces in general destabilize
an otherwise stable gyroscopic conservative system. A condition for no
destabilizing effects of these small forces is obtained. A concept of "perfect"
system in elastic stability of nonconservative problems is also presented. An
example problem is given for demonstration purposes.

I. INTRODUCTION
The study of dynamic instability of general gyroscopic conservative and
nonconservative systems is not only of theoretical interest, but is also of
practical interest and importance. To underscore this point, we merely need
to cite two classes of practical dynamic instability problems of gyroscopic
systems; namely, the critical rotating speeds of elastic shafts and critical

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flow speeds of fluid-conveying elastic pipes. For earlier studies (prior t o

mid-1950) of the dynamic instability of general gyroscopic systems, we cite
the works of Thomson and Tait [5], Ziegler [6, 71, Beth [8], and Bottema [9].
These studies were mostly confined to the investigation of stabilizing or
destabilizing effects of gyroscopic forces o n nondissipative conservative or
circulatory elastic systems. Since then, there appears to be very little activity
in this area of study until the studies of Shieh and Masur [I] and Shieh [2, 31.
In these studies, general asymptotic and elastic (quasi-) stability criteria of
an elastic or Kelvin-Voigt solid body were formulated in an "equivalent
energy" form [I], variational principles were established [2, 31, a variational
method similar to that of the Raleigh-Ritz for finding critical loads was
formulated [2-41, and special features of instability phenomena that are
typical of various dissipative (damped) and nondissipative (undamped)
systems were discussed [I, 21.
Following these studies, dynamic instability of gyroscopic conservative
systcms was further investigated by Huseyin and Plaut [lo, I I] (also see
Ref. 12). In Ref. 13, Shieh studied the elastic stability problem of a shaft
subjected to either circulatory type torsions or combined axial dead end
force and constant rotation and formulated or established stability criteria
and variational principles for shafts with unequal rigidities (e.g., elliptic
shafts) in higher order "equivalent" energy terms.
The present study is an extension of Refs. I and 2. Emphasis of the study
is placed on destabilizing effects of small external, as well as internal, damping
forces and/or small circulatory type forces and finding no destabilizing conditions of these forces.
The governing equations and stability conditions formulated in Ref. 1
are briefly presented in Section 11. In Section 111, effects of small damping
and circulatory forces o n stability of gyroscopic conservative (g.c.) systems
are studied; a condition that the stability load regions of the latter are
unaffected by the presence of small damping and circulatory forces is obtained; general destabilizing effects of these forces on a n otherwise stable g.c.
system are shown to exist; a special case of the above principles, applied to
conservatively loaded rotating elastic shafts, is discussed; and a concept of
"perfect" system in elastic stability of nonconservative problems is presented. Section IV deals with the corresponding discrete systems and also
contains illustrative numerical example problems of a conservatively loaded
rotating system.

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II. GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND STABILITY CONDITIONS

The brief presenration of this section generally follows that of Ref. 1.
These materials are presented here for completeness.
Consider a Kelvin-Voigt type viscoelestic solid body with material volume
V and material surface S. The body is originally in equilibrium (designated
as State I) under the set of body forces B, (per unit undeformed volume) and
surface tractions F, (per unit undeformed surface area) o n the part ST of S.
O n the remaining part of boundary surface S-ST, the displacement @ is
prescribed to be @.: In order to investigate the local stability of this equilibrium state (State I), we apply small initial disturbances a t time t = 0 t o the
equilibrated solid body and study the behavior of subsequent motions in the
neighborhood of State 1.
We shall assume that the applied body forces B(R, t) (R = material position vector) and surface tractions F(R, t) contain both displacement-dependent (conservative and nonconservative (circulatory)) components and
velocity-dependent (dissipative and gyroscopic) components. In addition,
surface tractions are assumed to contain acceleration (&)-dependent components of boundary inertia force type. Thus, after linearization with respect
to a small incremental displacement vector 4 = @ - @, and velocity vector
4 = 6 - &,, the applied forces and tractions can be written as
B = Bl

F = F,
=

+ I(4) + m(&,

in V

+ L(4) + ~ ( 4 -) qd,

o n ST

(1)

onS-ST

4,

where m, I, L, and M are linear operators on 4 or

q is the boundary (or
apparent) mass per unit undeformed surface area, and a dot indicates material
time (r) derivative.
The equations of small motion superimposed on a finitely deformed equilibrium state can be obtained from Eq. 12 of Ref. 1 by adding the acceleration
term -q$ to the traction boundary conditions. Introducing in these equations the complex response

where u, v, /?,and o are real quantities, one obtains

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where P = rV, P' = Vr) and quantities A, r, B, and Tare evaluated a t State
I (obtained by solving equations governing the equilibrium State I). In Eq. 3,
V = d/aR is the gradient operator, R is the material position vector, r
(= R + @,) is the spatial position vector, A and B are elastic and viscous
tangent moduli (at State I), T is the piola Kirchhoff stress tensor of the
second kind, N is the outward unit normal vector of the undeformed
surface element, and superscript t stands for "transpose."
Equations 3 are assumed to yield the set of modal solutions

Assuming that the modal expansion is valid, we define stability/instability

conditions as follows:
(1) Stability:
Asymptotic stability: All b, < 0 (occurs in damped systems)
Quasi-stability (corresponding to a critical case in the Liapunov sense of
stability [14]): All P, # 0 ; all w, = 0 (occurs in undamped elastic systems)
>0
(2) Instability: At least one /?,
(3) Critical state:
Asymptotic critical state: At least one P, = 0; remaining /?,
<0
Quasi-critical state: All P, = 0 and a t least a pair of w, repeated (including
w, = 0 case)
Instability and critical states can be further classified as divergence o r
flutter type, according to whether at least one w, = 0 or all o, f 0 among
those 1, = P, + iw, with p, > 0.
Multiplication of the first of Eqs. 3 by w* = u - iv (the complex conjugate of w), integration over V, and use of the divergence theorem and boundary conditions in Eqs. 3 leads to the scalar equations

where

and

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2Q1

[(Vw.P): i:( P CwtV)]dV

.

=A/

[(Vu.P):B:(Pf.uV) ( V V . P ) : ~ : ( P ~ . V V ) ] ~ V

D,= - I

4 v

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G=

-12

[U

4i

[w*.M(w)

. m(u) + v . m(v)]dv-

+ w.M(w*)]dS

+ V . M(v)]dS

A , [w*.m(w) - w - m(w*)]dV + 4;'

4i

-1

N =

[w*.m(w) + w.m(w*)]dV -

Is.

(6~)

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[w*.M(w) - w.M(w*)]dS

E (Vw* .wV)dY

(r*.).(I

- a l(w*)]dV + 4;

1.

[w* .L(w)

- w .L(w*)]dS

K, D,, D,, U,C, and N are real quadratic scalar functianals of u and v ; i.e.,
the real and imaginary parts of eigenfunctions w = u
iv. The funclionals
Kw2, D p , D,o, GO, P, and N are, respectively, the equivalent (or generalized) kinetic energy (i.e., K i n Eq. 6b, with w* and w replaced by @* and
a),internal and external viscous dissipation energies per radian in the time
interval (0, 2 x / o ) , gyroscopic potential, and work per radian done by purely
circulatory force component in the time interval (0, 2x10) under the motion
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Based on the definitions of stability given earlier and Eqs. 5, the following
conditions are obtained:
(1) Asymptotic stability conditions: L > 0, R > 0 (Eq. 7a); (Rw - N)/
(2Kw - G) > 0 (Eq. 7b).
(2) Quasi-stability conditions (R = 0): L = 0, N = 0 (w t 0) (Eq. 8) for
all normal modes.
(3) Instability conditions: L < 0 for at least one normal mode or alternately (R - N)/(2Kw - G) < 0.
(4) Asymptotic critical: L = 0, Rw - N = 0 (Eq. 9) for at least one
mode, while the remaining modes satisfy Eq. 7a.
(5) Quasi-critical (for the case of N = 0): L = 0, 2Kw - G = 0 (G $ 0)
(Eq. 10) for at least one mode, while the remaining normal modes satisfy
Eq. 8.

Ill. EFFECTS OF SMALL DAMPING AND CIRCULATORY

FORCES ON GYROSCOPIC CONSERVATIVE SYSTEMS
We observe from Eq. 8 that a circulatory force, no matter how small, in
general destabilizes an otherwise stable gyroscopic conservative system. This
is because one of the stability conditions, N = 0 in Eq. 8, in general cannot
be met unless all normal modes are real o i purely imaginary (but not both),
which is impossible unless o = 0 under all normal modes, due to the presence
of gyroscopic forces. However, if in addition to circulatory forces, finite
dissipative (damping) forces are also present in a gyroscopic conservative
system, the resulting system can again possess a finite region of asymptotic
stability, as can be seen from Eq. 7a. If damping is small, in view of Eq. 7b,
the circulatory force component, in general, is also necessarily small in order
that the system can be stable. In general, small damping and circulatory
forces may destabilize an otherwise stable gyroscopic conservative system.
We shall defer the study of this behavior until later and first obtain the
condition for identity of quasi-critical and asymptotic critical loads.

A. Identity Condition of Quasi-Critical and Asymptotic Critical

Loads
We observe a similarity between quasi-critical conditions of Eq. 8 for
gyroscopic conservative systems (designated as g.c. systems) and asymptotic

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critical conditions of Eq. 9 for dissipative, gyroscopic, circulatory systems

(designated as d.g.n. systems). These conditions become identical, at least
in form, if we replace 2K and G in the second equation of Eq. 10 with R and
N, respectively, or if the damping and circulatory forces are such that

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if

4,

klgQ

(k, = const.)

(1 lb)

for the asymptotic critical normal mode 4 , and quasi-critical normal modes
p, and pQ are the loading parameters and subscripts A and Q
stand for "asymptotic critical" and "quasi-critical," respectively. It should
be noted that satisfaction of Eq. I l a does not necessarily imply p, = p,, in
general, unless critical normal modes of both systems differ only by a constant
factor, as shown in Eq. I lb.
In the case of small damping and small circulatory forces, one can write

4Q,where

where E is a small damping parameter and R' and N' have the same orders of
magnitude as those of K and G. If these forces are vanishingly small (E -t
0 +), deviations of normal modes from those of the original g.c. system are
also vanishingly small. Therefore, 4, = k l g Q and all asymptotic and quasicritical conditions become identical if the first of Eqs. I la, which now can be
written as

is satisfied for the asymptotic and quasi-critical normal modes. Note that
the side condition PQ < 0 is a necessary condition for existence of a quasicritical or flutter state, in view of the quasi-stability condition of Eq. 8 with
N m 0, which can also be expressed as

Thus, if P 2 0, a g.c. system cannot be flutter critical or lose stability by

flutter. The condition P = PQ = 0 corresponds to both asymptotic and quasicritical divergence states (w = 0) and the corresponding critical loads for
both g.c. and d.g.n. systems are apparently identical, if the circulatory force
component is vanishingly small. Therefore, one may state the following.

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Theorem 1 : Under the influence of vanishingly small damping and circulatory forces, the quasi-critical flutter loads (if any) of the original g.c.
system are identical to the asymptotic critical flutter loads of the resulting
d.g.n. system if and only if the condition given by Eq. 13 is satisfied. The
quasi- and asymptotic critical divergence loads (if any) governed by P = 0
are always identical.
As a special case, we consider the case in which internal damping forces
are absent (D, = 0) or negligibly small, compared with external damping
forces, and external forces are of the form

where E, and c, are the linear external viscous body force and surface traction coefficient tensors, respectively, and subscripts G, C, and N astand for
"gyroscopic," "conservative," and "nonconservative" (circulatory) components of the applied forces, respectively. Under these force components,
Eq. 14 is apparently satisfied if

Furthermore, if the external damping forces coefficients are isotropic; i.e.,

e,

eVZ, e, = &,I

(I = identity matrix)

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Equation 1 can be written as

where k , is the proportional constant and R, is the position vector on the

surface S,.
Equation 15d is a sufficient condition for quasi-critical and asymptotic
critical loads to be identical.

B. Destabilizing Effects of Small Damplng andlor Small

Circulatory Forces

Theorem 2 : If the condition of Eq. 13 is violated, vanishingly small damping

(whether internal or external) and/or circulatory forces destabilize a n
otherwise stable g.c. system.

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T o show this, we rewrite the asymptotic critical condition of Eq. 7 in the

following form:
H/4K = K(w - G/2K)'
= N/R = Nf/R'

(1 6 4

(16b)

If the condition of Eq. 13 is violated, the asymptotic critical condition of Eq.

16 implies that

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H>O

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for the asymptotic critical mode. This, in turn, implies quasi-stability of the
corresponding g.c. system (cf. Eq. 14). Furthermore, it is necessary that
H > 0 for both quasi-stability and asymptotic stability. Hence, the asymptotic stability load region must be a subregion of quasi-stability.

C. Conservatively Loaded Rotating Elastic Shaft Case

In the case of a conservatively loaded rotating body with constant angular
velocity vector 52, the force components corresponding to those in Eq. 15a are

and T 0 in Eq. 6g if 6, is with respect to the rotating coordinate system.

If we assume that the external damping forces are of viscous traction force
type and are proportional to the absolute velocity vector 4, = 8, t R x 4,
then

where L,(4) and e, are defined as in Eq. 15a and subscript D stands for the
damping component of velocity-dependent forces. Strictly, small external
as well as internal damping forces in general destabilize a conservatively
loaded, rotating elastic body because the conditions of Eqs. 13 or 15b or 15d
in general cannot be satisfied. If, however, one makes the same approximations as elementary beam theory, Eqs. 17 a and b can be integrated over
the cross-sectional area A and circumferential length s to yield

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where z is the coordinate in the rotation-axis direction. Thus, if the viscous

damping coefficient tensor is isotropic; i.e., E, = &,I, and se, is denoted by p,
and D, = 0 (no internal damping), one has

Therefore, one may state the following:

A conservatively loaded elastic shaft cannot be destabilized by external
damping alone if it is of linear viscous type with isotropic damping coefficient tensor and the ratio between the coefficient p(z) and mass parameter
ni(z) = p(z)A(z) per unit shaft length are constant everywhere. Otherwise,
the shaft may be destabilized by small external damping as well as internal
damping forces.
Accordingly, for a shaft with homogeneous material property and damping
coefficient proportional to cross-sectional area A, which is usually the case
for air damping under small amplitude vibrations, a rotating shaft cannot be
destabilized by external damping of this type. Otherwise, small external
damping forces in general have a destabilizing effect on a conservatively
loaded rotating shaft.

D. A Concept of "Perfect" and "Imperfect" Systems in

Nonconservative Problems of Elastic Stability
Within the context of the present study, let us define a "perfect" elastic
system as one with negligibly small internal damping forces, compared with
external damping forces and satisfying the nondestabilizing condition (cf.
Eq. 13)

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for arbitrary w modes and a n "imperfect" system as one that does not satisfy
the above conditions. Then, quasi-stability of a n undamped g.c. system or
nongyroscopic circulatory system' represents the limiting case of asymptotic
stability for the corresponding "perfect" system, as the external damping
force parameter (and also circulatory force parameter in the gyroscopic case)
approaches zero.
There exists a wide class of "perfect" elastic systems in practical problems
of importance. For example, a n axially loaded rotating shaft under the
influence of relatively large external damping forces (compared with internal
damping forces) is such a system. Another example is the flutter problem of a
constant thickness panel situated in a supersonic airflow in which the mass
and aerodynamic damping coefficient (which is usually much larger than internal damping coefficient in normal flight range, say less than 50,000 ft) are
proportional everywhere, etc. Therefore, the quasi-stability analysis results,
which are usually simpler to obtain than the corresponding asymptotic
results, are useful in providing asymptotic stability results for a wide class
of dynamic instability problems; i.e., the entire class of dynamic instability
problems of "perfect" systems. However, before performing a quasi-stability
analysis, care must be exercised to make sure in advance that the system is
"perfect," because nonconservative problems of elastic stability are in general
"imperfection-sensitive" if the system is "imperfect" as defined above.

IV. DISCRETE SYSTEMS AND EXAMPLE

The linear equations of motion for the general discrete system corresponding to the continuous system studied previously can be written as

where [m]is the mass matrix, [dland [g] are the symmetric (damping) and
antisymmetric (gyroscopic) parts of the velocity-dependent force matrix,
respectively, [c] and I:n] are the symmetric (conservative) and antisymmetric
(purely nonconservative; i.e., circulatory) parts of the displacement-dependent force matrix, and {d}is the displacement vector. The functionals F = K,
R, or P in Eqs. 5a, 5b, and 6a are now given by
'It can be shown that R/2K = k , = const. is also a sufficient condition for the nondestabilizing effect of small damping on a nongyroscopic circulatory system.

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and J ( = G or N ) are

where i = J--i,{ l v ) is the modal vector, {w*} is the complex conjugate of

{IV), and superscript t stands for "transpose" of a vector or matrix. A sufficient condition for no destabilizing effect of small damping and circulatory
forces, according to Theorems 1 and 2, is

[dl = 2k,[ml,

[n] = k , [ g ]

or

o = G/2K = N / R

({w} = arbitrary)

(20)
where k , is a n arbitrary proportional constant. Equation 20 essentially states
that if the damping matrix is proportional to twice the mass matrix and if
the circulatory force matrix is proportional (by the same proportional constant) to the gyroscopic force matrix, small damping and circulatory forces
d o not destabilize a n otherwise stable g.c. system. Otherwise, the former in
general destabilize the latter.
Example: Consider a rotating mass-spring-dashpot system shown in Fig. 1,
which is under the action of external axial (conservative) and damping forces.
With reference to Fig. 1, the equations of motion are

Fig. 1 An externally loaded, rotating mass-dashpot-spring system.

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where v, and v2 are external viscous damping coefficients.

Define

where k, p, and v are positive constants (parameters) with values ranging

from 0 to I . Use of the standard eigenvalue solution method leads to

where
s

(m/k,)112i,

a,

a3

a4

2(1

y),
a, = 2d(l
d = v,/@L1
gZ - p)
d2[(y + 1)2 - (yp + v ) ~ ]

W ( Y + 1)(1 - P) - (Y - 1)s2 - (yp

= (1 - p - s2)' - k2 + (1 - v2)d2g2

Y = P,/v.,

Plk,,

+ v)kl

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g = (mlkJ112Q

The Routh-Hurwitz criterion for stability implies

with a, = 0 and F = 0 representing divergence and flutter critical conditions.

Thus, for the small damping case with p, and pJ denoting divergence and
flutter critical loads, respectively,

For the externally damped (but noninternally damped) case (d << 1, y

= O),

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For the undamped case, F, = a$ - 4a, > 0 for quasi-stability and FQ =O

for the quasi-critical condition. Thus,

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Equations 25 and 26 can be put in a more familiar form by first introducing

and substituting into these equations to obtain

where subscripts A and Q are used to denote the quantity corresponding to

asymptotic (A-) and quasi (Q-) critical cases, respectively.
The quasi (Q-) and asymptotic (A-) stability/instability regions corresponding to the undamped case with k = 5 and the corresponding small external
damping case ( d Z << 1) with the damping ratio T = 5.83 are plotted in Fig. 2.
Here we see that the A-flutter region penetrates into both Q-stable and Qdivergence regions, but not vice versa. Thus, contrary to common belief,
small external damping forces are seen to destabilize the conservatively
loaded rotating system, provided that p # 0. If p = 0; i.e., the case of an
unloaded rotating system, no flutter instability can occur for both the undamped system and the externally damped system.
From Eq. 28 we also observe that small external damping forces d o not
destabilize the undamped rotating system for the following two cases:

The nondestabilizing effect for the second case is predictable because, with
T = 1, the nondestabilizingcondition of Eq. 20 is satisfied (with k , = 2 ~ , / r n ) . ~
'The nondestabilizing effect for the first case (k = 1) is also readily predictable, because
in this case o = -j at a critical state and i t can be shown to satisfy the second condition
of Eq. 20 at the critical state.

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F
i
g
.2

Destabilizing effects of small external damping forces (k

82

= 0).

= 5 , 1 = 5.83, 8 , =

As a matter of fact, the corresponding system is a "perfect" system

defined in Eq. 17d.
In the small damping case in which internal damping is also present, it is
rather obvious from Eq. 24 that the latter has a destabilizing effect.

V. CONCLUDING REMARKS
With emphasis on small damping and the circulatory force case, dynamic
instability of an elastic or Voigt-Kelvin type viscoelastic solid body subjected
to both velocity- and displacement-dependent external forces has been
studied. The stability/instability conditions formulated previously [I, 21 have

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2x2

been first reviewed and subsequently used in studying the effect of small
damping and circulatory forces on stability of gyroscopic conservative
systems. It has been shown that these small forces in general have destabilizing
effects on the latter and a sufficient condition for nondestabilizing effect of
these small forces has been obtained. A concept of "perfect" systems in elastic
stability of nonconservative problems has also been presented for relating
the quasi-stability with the Liapunov sense of stability. For such a system,
the quasi-stability of the corresponding gyroscopic conservative or nongyroscopic circulatory system represents the limiting case in which the small
damping forces, also circulatory forces in the gyroscopic case, approach
zero.
An example problem of a conservatively loaded rotating system was
presented for demonstration purposes. It was demonstrated that for the case
of unequal spring constants and a mass matrix that is not proportional to the
external damping matrix, the undamped conservatively loaded rotating
system is destabilized by small external damping forces alone. This result,
also shown to hold for the general case, appears to be contrary to a common
belief that external damping forces alone cannot destabilize an otherwise
stable gyroscopic conservative system, such as the rotating system exemplified.

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