Influence of the Blades Configuration on the Dynamics of a 3-Bladed Jeffcott Rotor

Author(s):  
Florian Thiery ◽  
Jan-Olov Aidanpää
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2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Eissa ◽  
M. Kamel ◽  
N. A. Saeed ◽  
W. A. El-Ganaini ◽  
H. A. El-Gohary

2007 ◽  
Vol 303 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish K. Darpe
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2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyu Zhou ◽  
Jianjun Shi

Since many rotor systems normally operate above their critical speeds, the problem of accelerating the machine through its critical speeds without excessive vibration draws increasing attention. This paper provides an analytical imbalance response of the Jeffcott rotor under constant acceleration. The response consists of three parts: transient vibration due to the initial condition of the rotor, “synchronous” vibration, and suddenly occurring vibration at the damped natural frequency. This solution provides physical insight to the vibration of the rotor during acceleration.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
GHASEM TEHRANI GHANNAD ◽  
CHIARA GASTALDI ◽  
Teresa Berruti

Author(s):  
Ghasem Ghannad Tehrani ◽  
Chiara Gastaldi ◽  
Teresa Maria Berruti

Abstract Rolling bearings are still widely used in aeroengines. Whenever rotors are modeled, rolling bearing components are typically modeled using springs. In simpler models, this spring is considered to have a constant mean value. However, the rolling bearing stiffness changes with time due to the positions of the balls with respect to the load on the bearing, thus giving rise to an internal excitation known as Parametric Excitation. Due to this parametric excitation, the rotor-bearings system may become unstable for specific combinations of boundary conditions (e.g. rotational speed) and system characteristics (rotor flexibility etc.). Being able to identify these instability regions at a glance is an important tool for the designer, as it allows to discard since the early design stages those configurations which may lead to catastrophic failures. In this paper, a Jeffcott rotor supported and excited by such rolling bearings is used as a demonstrator. In the first step, the expression for the time–varying stiffness of the bearings is analytically derived by applying the Hertzian Contact Theory. Then, the equations of motion of the complete system are provided. In this study, the Harmonic Balance Method (HBM) is used to as an approximate procedure to draw a stability map, thus dividing the input parameter space, i.e. rotational speed and rotor physical characteristics, into stable and unstable regions.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Matsuda ◽  
Shinya Kijimoto ◽  
Yoichi Kanemitsu

The whirl instability occurs at higher rotating speeds for a full circular fluid-film journal bearing, and many types of clearance configuration have been proposed to solve this instability problem. A clearance configuration of fluid-film journal bearings is optimized in a sense of enhancing the stability of the full circular bearing at high rotational speeds. A performance index is chosen as the sum of the squared whirl-frequency ratios over a wide range of eccentricity ratios, and a Fourier series is used to represent an arbitrary clearance configuration of fluid-film bearings. An optimization problem is then formulated to find the Fourier coefficients to minimize the index. The designed bearing has a clearance configuration similar to that of an offset two-lobe bearing for smaller length-to-diameter ratios. It is shown that the designed bearing cannot destabilize the Jeffcott rotor at any high rotating speed for a wide range of eccentricity ratio. The load capacity of the designed bearings is nearly in the same magnitude as that of the full circular bearing for smaller length-to-diameter ratios. The whirl-frequency ratios of the designed bearing are very sensitive to truncating higher terms of the Fourier series for some eccentricity ratio. The designed bearings successfully enhance the stability of a full circular bearing and are free from the whirl instability.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. F. Ehrich

Subharmonic response in rotordynamics may be encountered when a rotor is operated with its rotational centerline eccentric to that of a close clearance static part, so that local contact can take place during each orbit when the rotor is excited by residual unbalance. The rotor will tend to bounce at or near its fundamental frequency when the rotor is operated at or near a speed which is a whole number [n] times that frequency. Using a simple numerical model of a Jeffcott rotor mounted on a nonlinear spring, it is found that the vibratory response in the transition zone midway between adjacent zones of subharmonic response has all the characteristics of chaotic behavior. The transition from subharmonic to chaotic response has a complex substructure which involves a sequence of bifurcations of the orbit with variations in speed. This class of rotordynamic behavior was confirmed and illustrated by experimental observations of the vibratory response of a high-speed turbomachine, operating at a speed between 8 and 9 times its fundamental rotor frequency when in local contact across a clearance in the support system. A narrow region between zones of 8th order and 9th order subharmonic response was identified where the response had all the characteristics of the chaotic motion identified in the numerical model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser A. Saeed ◽  
Mostafa Eissa

This work focuses on the dynamical behaviour and bifurcations of a vertically supported Jeffcott rotor system having a transverse crack and nonlinear stiffness characteristics at the primary, sub-harmonic, and super-harmonic resonance cases. The nonlinear restoring force due to the bearing-clearance, the crack breathing, the disc eccentricity, and the orientation angle between the crack and imbalance direction are considered in the system model. The equations governing the system motion are derived and solved analytically by applying the Multiple Scales Perturbation Technique (MSPT). The slow-flow modulating equations are obtained and the spinning speed response curve is plotted. The whirling orbit and amplitude spectrum are constructed in the three considered resonance cases. The acquired results provide a better understanding of the main reasons of the super- and sub-harmonic resonance excitations. In additions, we concluded that the suitable resonance case that can be used for early detections of the cracks in the rotating shafts is the sub-harmonic resonance case. Finally, the obtained results are confirmed numerically and compared with the work published in the literature


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