Unbalanced Response of Cracked Rotor-Bearing System Under Time-Dependent Base Movements

Author(s):  
Qinkai Han ◽  
Fulei Chu

Unbalanced response of cracked rotor-bearing system under time-dependent base movements is studied in this paper. Three base angular motions, including the rolling, pitching and yawing motions, are assumed to be sinusoidal perturbations superimposed upon constant terms. Both the open and breathing transverse cracks are considered in the analysis. The finite element model is established for the base excited rotor-bearing system with open or breathing cracks. Considering the time-varying base movements and transverse cracks, the second order differential equations of the system will not only have time-periodic gyroscopic and stiffness coefficients, but also the multi-frequency external excitations. An improved harmonic balance method is introduced to obtain the steady-state response of the system under both base and unbalance excitations. The whirling frequencies of the equivalent time-invariant system, orbits of shaft center, response spectra and frequency response characteristics, are analyzed accordingly. The effects of various base angular motions, frequency and amplitude of base excitations, and crack depths on the system dynamic behaviors are considered in the discussions.

Author(s):  
Zhaoli Zheng ◽  
Yonghui Xie ◽  
Di Zhang ◽  
Fahui Zhu

The steady-state response and breathing mechanism of a cracked rotor supported by flexible bearings are investigated in this paper. The generalized and efficient method proposed in this paper can be used to study the dynamics of complicated cracked structures without much modification. First, a three-dimensional finite element model of the cracked rotor-bearing system is established in the rotating frame and a general contact model for modeling the breathing crack is proposed. A component mode synthesis is used to form a reduced-order model. Then, a procedure combining multi-harmonic balance method with arc-length method is used to search the response solution. To accelerate the calculation, the analytical formulations for calculating the tangent stiffness matrix are used. Finally, the gravity induced response and breathing mechanism of a cracked rotor-bearing system are obtained. Interesting result is that the rotational speed and the crack depth will influence the breathing mechanism even if the load remains unchanged.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 5617
Author(s):  
Zhiguo Wan ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Binqiang Chen ◽  
Yihua Dou ◽  
Xinjuan Wei

This paper presents the vibration of a transversely cracked rotor supported by anisotropic journal bearings, where the speed-dependent characteristic of bearing is considered. A 3D finite element model and the contact-based approach are employed for the shaft and crack. The governing differential equations of the whole cracked rotor-bearing system were obtained by synthesizing the equations of the cracked shaft, the breathing crack and the journal bearings. In order to solve the computational difficulties caused by the high dimensions of model, the free-interface complex component mode synthesis method (CMS) is employed to reduce the order of the model. On this basis, the eigenvalue and the steady-state forced response of the cracked rotor-bearing system are obtained by the Hill’s method. Finally, the effects of the anisotropic and speed-dependent characteristics of bearings on the vibration of the system are studied. Numerical results show that both the two characteristics can significantly affect the response of the system. The anisotropy in the bearing leads to the split of resonant peaks and influence the amplitudes of the peaks. The speed-dependent characteristic mainly affects the responses at the speeds close to the resonant regions, because the parametric excitation effect of the resonance region is greater than other speeds.


Author(s):  
Yifu Zhou ◽  
Zhong Luo ◽  
Zifang Bian ◽  
Fei Wang

As sophisticated mechanical equipment, the rotor system of aero-engine is assembled by various parts; bolted flange joints are one of the essential ways of joints. Aiming at the analysis of the nonlinear vibration characteristics of the rotor-bearing system with bolted flange joints, in this paper, a finite element modeling method for a rotor-bearing system with bolted flange joints is proposed, and an incremental harmonic balance method combined with arc length continuation is proposed to solve the dynamic solution of the rotor system. In order to solve the rotor system with rolling bearing nonlinearity, the alternating frequency/time-domain process of the rolling bearing element is deduced. Compared with the conventional harmonic balance method and the time-domain method, this method has the characteristics of fast convergence and high computational efficiency; solving the rotor system with nonlinear bearing force; overcome the shortcoming that the frequency–response curve of the system is too sharp to continue solving. By using this method, the influence of bearing clearance and stiffness on vibration characteristics of the rotor system with bolted flange joints is studied. The evolution law of the state of the rotor system with bolt flange is investigated through numerical simulation and experimental data. The results indicated that the modeling and solving method proposed in this paper could accurately solve the rotor-bearing system with bolted flange joints and analyze its vibration characteristics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 3403-3407
Author(s):  
Chao Feng Li ◽  
Shi Hua Zhou ◽  
Jie Liu

Based on the establishment of angular contact ball bearing mechanical model, a nonlinear coupled lateral, torsional and axial dynamic model of helical gear-rotor-bearing system is established, and the dynamic differential equations of the coupled lateral-torsional-axial nonlinear vibration are deduced for imbalance rotors. The investigations are systematically carried out by oscillograms and spectrograms with rotating speed, taking into account eccentricity and nonlinear supporting by rolling bearing. The results show that the rotation frequency of the driven shaft appears in the driving shaft. In addition, the rotation frequencies and meshing frequency appear obviously in torsional direction. It can be seen that the lateral, torsional and axial response characteristics of driving and driven shafts obvious differences are due to the effects of the gear assembly characteristic, gear geometry parameters and the angular contact ball bearings characteristics. As a result, not only appear the rotational frequency and stiffness frequency, but also yield the bearing variable stiffness frequency and conbined frequency in lateral directions. However, the theory of the helical gear-rotor-bearing system still needs further research.


2014 ◽  
Vol 945-949 ◽  
pp. 853-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Chung Chen ◽  
Chung Hao Kang ◽  
Siu Tong Choi

The gear mesh stiffnesses have been regarded as constants in most previous models of geared rotor-bearing systems. In this paper, a dynamic analysis of a spur geared rotor-bearing system with nonlinear gear mesh stiffness is presented. The nonlinear gear mesh stiffness is accounted for by bending, fillet-foundation and contact deflections of gear teeth. A finite element model of the geared rotor-bearing system is developed, the equations of motion are obtained by applying Lagrange’s equation, and the dynamic responses are computed by using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta numerical method. Numerical results indicate that the proposed gear mesh stiffness provides a realistic dynamic response for spur geared rotor-bearing system.


Author(s):  
Zhiwei Liu ◽  
Yuefang Wang

Many rotor assemblies of industrial turbomachines are supported by oil-lubricated bearings. It is well known that the operation safety of these machines is highly dependent on rotors whose stability is closely related to the whirling motion of lubricant oil. In this paper, the problem of transverse motion of rotor systems considering bearing nonlinearity is revisited. A symmetric, rigid Jeffcott rotor is modeled considering unbalanced mass and short bearing forces. A semi-analytical, seminumerical approach is presented based on the generalized harmonic balance method (GHBM) and the Newton–Raphson iteration scheme. The external load of the system is decomposed into a Fourier series with multiple harmonic loads. The amplitude and phase with respect to each harmonic load are solved iteratively. The stability of the motion response is analyzed through identification of eigenvalues at the fixed point mapped from the linearized system using harmonic amplitudes. The solutions of the present approach are compared to those from time-domain numerical integrations using the Runge–Kutta method, and they are found to be in good agreement for stable periodic motions. It is revealed through bifurcation analysis that evolution of the motion in the nonlinear rotor-bearing system is complicated. The Hopf bifurcation (HB) of synchronous vibration initiates oil whirl with varying mass eccentricity. The onset of oil whip is identified when the saddle-node bifurcation of subsynchronous vibration takes place at the critical value of parameter.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Guihuo Luo ◽  
Zhaojun Feng ◽  
Zedong Yang ◽  
Nan Zheng ◽  
Wei Chen

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