Stability of hybrid rotating shaft with simply supported and/or clamped ends in a weak formulation

In this paper, a technique of dynamic stability analysis proposed for the conventional laminated structures is extended to activated shape memory alloy hybrid rotating structures axially loaded by a time-dependent force. In the stability study, the hybrid shaft is treated as a thin-walled symmetrically laminated beam containing both the conventional fibers, and the activated shape memory alloy fibers parallel to the shaft axis. The stability analysis method is developed for distributed dynamic problems with relaxed assumptions imposed on solutions. The weak form of dynamical equations of the rotating shaft is obtained using Hamilton's principle. We consider the influence of activation through the change of temperature on the stability domains of the shaft in the case when the angular velocity is constant. The force stochastic component is assumed in the form of ergodic stationary processes with continuous realisations. The study of stability analysis is based on exami ning properties of Liapunov's functional along a weak solution. Solution to the problem is presented for an arbitrary combination of simply supported and/or clamped boundary conditions. Formulas defining dynamic stability regions are written explicitly.