Response of large mistuned bladed disk assembly subjected to random excitations.

In this study, the effects of large geometric mistuning on blade response are investigated considering the change of mistuning properties and excitation characteristics. The response variations because of large mistuning are negligible under white noise excitations and are highly significant under narrow band excitations. For the different excitation correlations, the responses are represented using non-dimensional variables in order for the results to be comparable to each other. It is shown that the ratio of the modal frequency between the tuned and large mistuned blades determines the propagation direction of the natural frequencies of the mistuned system, therefore, the responses of large mistuned blades depend primarily on their level of modal frequency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]