Dynamic Analysis of a Geared Rotor-Bearing System With Viscoelastic Supports Under the Bow Effect

Author(s):  
T. N. Shiau ◽  
E. K. Lee ◽  
T. H. Young ◽  
W. C. Hsu

This paper investigates the dynamic behaviors of a geared rotor-bearing system mounted on viscoelastic supports under considerations of the gear eccentricity, excitation of the gear’s transmission error and the residual shaft bow. The finite element method is used to model the system and Lagrangian approach is applied to derive the system equations of motion. The coupling effect of lateral and torsional motions is considered in the system dynamic analysis. The investigated dynamic characteristics include system natural frequencies and steady-state response. The results show that the mass, the stiffness and the loss factor of the viscoelastic support will significantly affect system critical speeds and steady-state response. Larger loss factor and more rigid stiffness of the viscoelastic supports will suppress the systematic amplitude of resonance. Parameters, which include magnitude of the residual bow and phase angle, are also considered in the investigation of their effects on system critical speeds and steady-state response. Results show that they have tremendous influence on first critical speed when the geared system mounted on stiff viscoelastic supports. The transmission error of the gear mesh is assumed to be sinusoidal with tooth passing frequency and it will induce multiple low resonant frequencies in the system response. It is observed that the excited critical speed equals to the original critical speed divided by gear tooth number.

Author(s):  
T. N. Shiau ◽  
E. K. Lee ◽  
Y. C. Chen ◽  
T. H. Young

The paper presents the dynamic behaviors of a geared rotor-bearing system under the effects of the residual shaft bow, the gear eccentricity and excitation of gear’s transmission error. The coupling effect of lateral and torsional motions is considered in the dynamic analysis of the geared rotor-bearing system. The finite element method is used to model the system and Lagrangian approach is applied to derive the system equations of motion. The dynamic characteristics including system natural frequencies, mode shapes and steady-state response are investigated. The results show that the magnitude of the residual shaft bow, the phase angle between gear eccentricity and residual shaft bow will significantly affect system natural frequencies and steady-state response. When the spin speed closes to the second critical speed, the system steady state response will be dramatically increased by the residual shaft bow for the in-phase case. Moreover the zero response can be obtained when the system is set on special conditions.


Author(s):  
Tsu-Wei Lin ◽  
Yuan Kang ◽  
Chun-Chieh Wang ◽  
Chuan-Wei Chang ◽  
Chih-Pin Chiang

This study utilizes genetic algorithm to minimize the condition number of Hermitian matrix of influence coefficient (HMIC) to reduce the computation errors in balancing procedure. Then, the optimal locations of balancing planes and sensors would be obtained as fulfilling optimization. The finite element method is used to determine the steady-state response of flexible rotor-bearing systems. The optimization improves the balancing accuracy, which can be validated by the experiments of balancing a rotor kit.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruiyang Wang ◽  
Bingen Yang

Abstract In Part I of this two-part paper, a new benchmark transient model of Inductrack systems is developed. In this Part II, the proposed model, which is governed by a set of non-linear integro-differential governing equations, is used to predict the dynamic response of Inductrack systems. In the development, a state-space representation of the non-linear governing equations is established and a numerical procedure with a specific moving circuit window for transient solutions is designed. The dynamic analysis of Inductrack systems with the proposed model has two major tasks. First, the proposed model is validated through comparison with the noted steady-state results in the literature. Second, the transient response of an Inductrack system is simulated and analyzed in several typical dynamic scenarios. The steady-state response results predicted by the new model agree with those obtained in the previous studies. On the other hand, the transient response simulation results reveal that an ideal steady-state response can hardly exist in those investigated dynamic scenarios. It is believed that the newly developed transient model provides a useful tool for dynamic analysis of Inductrack systems and for in-depth understanding of the complicated electro-magneto-mechanical interactions in this type of dynamic systems.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Benson

The steady state response of a cantilevered rotor with skew and mass unbalances is studied, with special attention to the effects due to skew. A disk misaligned with its drive shaft receives active gyroscopic moments which force pitch changes in the disk, much as mass unbalance centrifugal forces induce disk translation. These active gyroscopic moments affect the rotor in ways unpredicted by passive gryoscopics; that is to say the moments acting on a perfectly aligned disk which changes pitch solely due to its precession. Under the combined influences of disk skew and mass unbalance the precessing rotor exhibits an unconventional phase lag response, and it need not be in line with the mass unbalance at low spin rates. This can significantly alter rotor balancing procedures. Rotor critical speeds are studied for their number and severity, with results presented in a compact nondimensional form.


Author(s):  
T. N. Shiau ◽  
J. R. Chang ◽  
W. B. Lu

This paper presents the multi-objective optimization of a geared rotor-bearing system with the critical speeds constraints by using an efficient multilevel algorithm. The weight of each rotor shaft, the unbalance response, and the response due to the transmission error are minimized simultaneously under the critical speed constraints. The design variables are the inner radii of the shaft, the stiffness of bearings, and the gear mesh stiffness. The finite element method (FEM) is employed to analyze the dynamic characteristics and the method of feasible direction (MFD) is applied in the optimization of the single objective stage. Based on the sensitivity analysis that gear mesh stiffness has almost no influences on the critical speeds of the uncoupled modes of two shafts, an efficient multilevel algorithm composed of system and subsystem levels is developed. In the cycle of iteration, the minimization of the shaft weight is performed in the subsystem level with the critical speed constraints of only uncoupled modes of two shafts and the unbalance response and the transmission error response are reduced in the system level with the critical speed constraints of only coupled modes. It is indicated from the numerical results that the shaft weight, the unbalance response, and the transmission error response via the multilevel technique (ML) are all reduced much more than those via the weighting method (WM) and the goal programming method (GPM).


1999 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 1015-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen-San Chen

The steady-state response of a disk spinning near its critical speed and under space-fixed time-invariant load is analyzed by using von Karman’s nonlinear plate model. It is found that as the disk rotates beyond a modified critical speed there exist three steady-state deflections, among which only one is in the same direction as the applied load and is stable in the presence of space-fixed damping.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Zu ◽  
Z. Y. Ji

A continuous modeling of nonlinear rotor-bearing systems is presented in this paper. The shaft is treated as a distributed parameter system using Timoshenko beam theory. A close form, steady-state response of the system is solved analytically for the first time. For cubic nonlinear bearings, the response is composed of three components, synchronous vibration, subsynchronous, and supersynchronous vibration. The harmonic balance method is used to calculate the nonlinear bearing forces. Two examples of nonlinear rotor-bearing systems are shown to illustrate the analysis procedure and the nonlinear characteristics of the system. Solutions from simplified systems are also derived for comparison.


Author(s):  
Hsiao-Wei D. Chiang ◽  
Chih-Neng Hsu ◽  
Wes Jeng ◽  
Shun-Hsu Tu ◽  
Wei-Chen Li

It is very common for aircraft engines to have dual rotor or even triple rotor designs. Due to the complexity of having multiple rotor design, the transfer matrix methods have used in the past to deal with multiple rotor-bearing systems. However, due to transfer matrix method’s assumptions, sometimes resulted in numerical stability problems or root-missing problems. The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic theoretical analysis of the dynamic characteristics of turbomachinery dual rotor-bearing systems. This dual rotor-bearing system analysis will start with a finite element (FEM) rotor-bearing system dynamic model, then using different methods to verify the analysis results including critical speed map and bearing stiffness. In an inertia coordinate system, a general model of continuous dual rotor-bearing systems is established based on a lagrangian formulation. Gyroscopic moment, rotary inertia, bending and shear deformations have been included in the model. From a point of view of the systematic approach, a solution of the finite element method is used to calculate the critical speeds by several different methods, which in turn can help to verify this dual rotor-bearing system approach. The effects of the speed ratio of dual rotors on the critical speed will be studied, which in turn can be used as one of the dual rotor design parameters. Also, both critical speeds are in effect functions of dual rotor speeds. Finally, the bearing stiffness between high speed and low speed shafts not only affect the critical speeds of the dual rotor system, but also affect the mode shapes of the system. Therefore, the bearing stiffness in between is of even greater importance in turbomachinery dual rotor or multiple rotor design.


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