Based on the above discussion, we may conclude the following:

1. For negligible disc eccentricity, the cracked system does

not oscillate unless the system linear stiffness coefficient is
reduced by about 11%that resulting from the shaft crack.
Moreover, when the shaft linear stiffness coefficient is
reduced to 20%or more, the cracked system may have two
periodic-solution attractors beside the trivial solution one.
2. Despite of the qualitative changes in the system dynamics
in primary resonance case due to the shaft crack, the
accurate early detections of the cracks may not successfully
achieve because of the effect of disc eccentricity especially
at small crack depth.
3. The absence of backward whirling motions at relatively
large disc eccentricity during the disc deceleration is a good
indication of the shaft crack existence.
4. At non zero-disc eccentricity, the system oscillation
amplitudes are monotonic increasing functions of the crack
depth and when it reaches a critical value, the system loses
its stability via Hopf bifurcation and an abrupt increasing
for the vibration amplitudes occurs.
5. At negligible disc eccentricity, the system does not oscillate
as the crack depth increases until it reaches a critical value,
beyond this critical value the oscillation amplitudes either
increase monotonically or jump abruptly to a large
oscillation amplitude depending on the disc spinning speed.