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This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor and the Publishers.
Reason for Retraction: The results of a plagiarism investigation showed that the authors of this work (R Hbaieb, F Chaari, T Fakhfakh, and M Haddar) are in breach of the agreement that they signed in their Assignment of Copyright and Conditions of Publication form for JAUTO248, having copied substantial portions of material from the published paper: Lin, J. and Parker, R. G. Planetary gear parametric instability caused by mesh stiffness variation. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2002, 249(1), 129-145 [DOI:10.1006/jsvi.2001.3848].
We apologize that this was not detected during the peer review process in 2006.