A power transmission system driven by a Cardan shaft may experience severe vibration due to fluctuating rotational speed and moments transferred to the final drives, determined by the level of angular misalignment and phasing of the joint yokes. This study investigates the potential of an out-of-phase position displaced by a phase angle in attenuating vibrations. The governing equations representing the dynamics of the system are derived. The torsional and lateral vibration responses are numerically calculated over a range of input rotational speeds. When attenuating the vibration, the phase angle is set equal to the maximum twist that occurs during the in-phase position. Relative attenuation is used to investigate the phase angle effects. The effectiveness is studied for different levels of static angular misalignment. For the considered system, the results showed that for static angular misalignment greater than 20 degrees, the proposed phase angle arrangement could attenuate torsional vibration by more than 10 percent and significantly attenuate the lateral vibration.
