Guided splined disks" are defined as flat thin disks in which the inner radius of the disk is splined and matches a splined arbor that provides the driving torque for rotating the disk. Lateral constraint for the disk is provided by space fixed guide pads. Experimental lateral displacement of run-up tests of such a system is presented, and the flutter instability zones are identified. The results indicate that flutter instability occurs at speeds when a backward travelling wave of a mode meets a reflected wave of a different mode. Sometimes, the system cannot pass a flutter zone, and transverse vibrations of the disk lock into that flutter instability zone. The governing linear equations of transverse motion of such a spinning disk, with assumed free inner and outer boundary conditions, are derived. A lateral constraint is introduced and modeled as a linear spring. Rigid body translational and tilting degrees of freedom are included in the analysis of the total motion of the spinning disk. The eigenvalues of the system are computed numerically, and the flutter instability zones are defined. The results show that the mathematical model can predict accurately the flutter instability zones measured in the experimental tests.

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The governing linear equations of transverse motion of a spinning disk with a splined inner radius and constrained from lateral motion by guide pads are derived. The disk is driven by a matching spline arbor that offers no restraint to the disk in the lateral direction. Rigid body translational and tilting degrees-of-freedom are included in the analysis of total motion of the spinning disk. The disk is subjected to lateral constraints and loads. Also considered are applied conservative in-plane edge loads at the outer and inner boundaries. The numerical solution of these equations is used to investigate the effect of the loads and constraints on the natural frequencies, critical speeds, and stability of a spinning disk. The sensitivity of eigenvalues of spline spinning disk to the in-plane edge loads is analyzed by taking the derivative of the spinning disk's eigenvalues with respect to the loads. An expression for the energy induced in the spinning disk by the in-plane loads, and their interaction at the inner radius, is derived by computation of the rate of work done by the lateral component of the edge loads. Experimental idling and cutting tests for a guided spline saw are conducted at the critical speed, super critical speeds, and at the flutter instability speed. The cutting results at different speeds are compared to show that the idling results of a guided spline disk can be used to predict stable operation speeds of the system during cutting.

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