Large deflection model for rub-impact analysis in high-speed rotor-bearing system with mass unbalance

Author(s):  
Hanmant P. Phadatare ◽  
Barun Pratiher
1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Metcalfe ◽  
J. S. Burdess

A method for minimizing forced harmonic vibration of a rotor-bearing system by the application of external control forces is presented. The frequency of the vibration is assumed known. In cases of mass unbalance or bend in the shaft this will be shaft rotation frequency and can usually be monitored without difficulty. The control forces could be provided by electromagnetic actuators. The control strategy presented does not require any knowledge of the system parameters and, provided the uncontrolled system is stable, cannot destablize the system. Results from a simulation are shown.


Author(s):  
P. K. Kankar ◽  
Satish C. Sharma ◽  
S. P. Harsha

The vibration response of a rotor bearing system is extremely important in industries and is challenged by their highly non-linear and complex properties. This paper focuses on performance prediction using response surface method (RSM), which is essential to the design of high performance rotor bearing system. Response surface method is utilized to analysis the effects of design and operating parameters on the vibration response of a rotor-bearing system. A test rig of high speed rotor supported on rolling bearings is used. Vibration response of the healthy ball bearing and ball bearings with various faults are obtained and analyzed. Distributed defects are considered as surface waviness of the bearing components. Effects of internal radial clearance and surface waviness of the bearing components and their interaction are analyzed using design of experiment (DOE) and RSM.


Author(s):  
Thimothy Harold Gonsalves ◽  
Mohan Kumar Garje Channabasappa ◽  
Ramesh Motagondanahalli Rangarasaiah

Author(s):  
Crystal A. Heshmat ◽  
Hooshang Heshmat ◽  
Mark J. Valco ◽  
Kevin C. Radil ◽  
Christopher Della Corte

This paper describes an oil-free, 150 Hp turbocharger that was successfully operated with compliant foil bearings in a range of pitch and roll angles, including vertical operation, thereby demonstrating its viability for aircraft applications. On a gas test stand the turbocharger was operated to 120,000 rpm, under extreme conditions. In addition, the compliant foil bearing-supported turbocharger successfully tolerated shock and vibration of 40 g. Advanced technologies have been applied to the second generation of this turbocharger, shown in Figure 1, including self acting, compliant foil hydrodynamic air bearings with advanced coatings capable, of operation above 815 °C (1500°F). Journal foil bearings with maximum load capacity up to 670 kPa (97 psi) were used in conjunction with thrust foil bearings capable of maximum loads to 570 kPa (83 psi). Bearing component development tests demonstrated 30,000 start stop cycles at 815 °C (1500°F) with a newly developed, solid lubricant coating, KOROLON™. KOROLON™ exhibits a coefficient of friction of less than 0.1 at a wide range of temperatures. Current-designed foil bearings with KOROLON™ have immensely decreased turbolag, allowing acceleration from rest to over 100,000 rpm in less than 2 seconds. Advanced bearing stiffness maintained rotor total axial end-to-end motion within 100 microns (0.004 inch). Total radial static and dynamic motion was controlled within 25 microns (0.001 inch). Development of this high speed turbomachine included bearing and solid lubricant component development tests, rotor-bearing dynamic simulator qualification and gas stand tests of the assembled turbocharger. Gas stand and simulator test results revealed stable bearing temperatures, low rotor vibrations, good shock tolerance and the ability of the rotor bearing system to sustain overspeed conditions beyond 120,000 rpm. This combination of component and integrated rotor-bearing system technology addresses many of the issues associated with application of compliant foil bearings to industrial compressors, blowers, and gas turbine engines, overcoming many of the inherently show-stopping and debilitating features of rolling element bearings, i.e., speed and temperature limitations.


Author(s):  
Deborah A. Wilde ◽  
Luis San Andre´s

Current applications of gas film bearings in high-speed oil-free micro-turbomachinery (<0.4 MW) require calibrated predictive tools to successfully deploy their application to mass-produced systems, for example oil-free turbochargers. The present investigation details the linear rotordynamic analysis of a test rotor supported on externally pressurized gas bearings. Model predictions are compared with the test rotordynamic response determined through comprehensive experiments conducted on a small rotor supported on three lobed hybrid (hydrostatic/hydrodynamic) rigid gas bearings. Predictions for the rotor-bearing system synchronous response to imbalance show good agreement with measurements during rotor coast downs, and manifest a decrease in damping ratio as the level of external pressurization increases. The rotor-bearing eigenvalue analysis forwards natural frequencies in accordance with the measurements, and null damping ratios evidence the threshold speeds of rotordynamic instability. Estimated whirl frequency ratios are typically 50% of rotor speed, thus predicting sub synchronous instabilities at lower rotor speeds than found experimentally when increasing the magnitude of feed pressurization. Rationale asserting the nature of the discrepancies calls for further analysis.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Desavale ◽  
R. Venkatachalam ◽  
S. P. Chavan

Many industries make wide use of rotor bearing systems such as high speed turbines and generators. However, the vibration of antifriction rotor–bearings is a key factor in reducing the life of the bearings; thus significantly influencing the performance and working life of the whole power plant. In earlier research on the vibration characteristics of high speed rotor–bearing systems, such as in induced draft (ID) fans, an application used in sugar cane factories, the supporting antifriction bearings were simplified as a particle on a shaft with radial stiffness and damping coefficient. However, such simplification neglects the effects of the bearing structure on the vibration performance of the rotor–bearing system. This paper demonstrates the benefits of a more holistic approach and establishes a numerical model of the stiffness of the spherical roller bearing through Buckingham's π theorem (BPT). On the basis of this model, we argue for the benefits of a new dimensional analysis (DA) technique for rotor–bearing systems. Our new DA also considers the influences of the bearing structure parameters on the vibration of rotor–bearing systems. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by conducting a comparative BPT study using an ID fan, a rotor–bearing system in use in sugar cane factories. We first analyzed an ID fan using the simplified model to obtain the defect frequencies and vibration amplitude responses of the ID fan system. Subsequently the same ID fan rotor was also analyzed using our new multivariable regression analysis (MVRA) approach to verify the validity of our new and holistic BPT. The results indicate that the new method we propose in this paper for the calculation of vibration characteristics of a high speed rotor–bearing (ID fan) is credible and will save time and costs by the accurate detection of imminent bearing failure.


2012 ◽  
Vol 538-541 ◽  
pp. 1967-1970
Author(s):  
Chang Qing Su ◽  
Yi Yu Sun ◽  
Le Xin Li

Oil whip phenomenon is the common fault in rotor-bearing system. The reason why oil whip happens often has been researched in high-speed rotor-bearing system. But in practice engineering, due to the requirement of work condition, oil whip cannot be avoided all the time in rotor-bearing system. The paper is based on the relation criterion of oil whip happens in rotor-bearing system, the reliability mode and system reliability of oil whip are defined, and the reliability analysis method for avoiding oil whip in rotor-bearing system is carried out. The effect on reliability sensitivity of random parameters is studied. Numerical results are also presented and discussed.


Author(s):  
P. K. Kankar ◽  
Satish C. Sharma ◽  
S. P. Harsha

In this paper the nonlinear dynamic responses of a rigid rotor supported by ball bearings due to surface waviness of bearing races are analyzed. A mathematical formulation has been derived with consideration of the nonlinear springs and nonlinear damping at the contact points of rolling elements and races, whose stiffnesses are obtained by using Hertzian elastic contact deformation theory. The numerical integration technique Newmark-β with the Newton–Raphson method is used to solve the nonlinear differential equations, iteratively. The effect of bearing running surface waviness on the nonlinear vibrations of rotor bearing system is investigated. The results are mainly presented in time and frequency domains are shown in time-displacement, fast Fourier transformation, and Poincaré maps. The results predict discrete spectrum with specific frequency components for each order of waviness at the inner and outer races, also the excited frequency and waviness order relationships have been set up to prognosis the race defect on these bearing components. Numerical results obtained from the simulation are validated with respect to those of prior researchers.


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