ANALYSIS OF THE STEADY STATE UNBALANCE RESPONSE OF RIGID ROTORS ON MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPERS: STABILITY, FORCE TRANSMISSION AND ENERGY DISSIPATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 1450022 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAROSLAV ZAPOMĚL ◽  
PETR FERFECKI ◽  
PAOLA FORTE

The rotors working in real technological devices are always slightly imbalanced. This excites their lateral vibrations and generates forces that are transmitted to the rotor casing. These effects can be significantly reduced if damping devices are added to the support elements. The possibility of controlling the damping, in order to achieve their optimum performance, is offered by magnetorheological squeeze film dampers. In this paper, a computational modeling method is used to investigate the dynamical behavior of a rigid flexibly supported rotor loaded by its unbalance and equipped with two short magnetorheological dampers. The equations of motion of the rotor are nonlinear due to the damping forces. Computational procedures were developed to verify the applicability of such dampers by simulating their behavior and analyzing their effect on the amplitude of the rotor vibration, on the magnitude of the forces transmitted to the rotor casing and on the amount of the power dissipated in the magnetorheological films. The proposed approach to study the optimum performance of semiactive magnetorheological dampers applied in rotor systems, in terms of vibration amplitudes and transmitted forces, together with the developed efficient computational methods to calculate the system steady state response and to evaluate its stability represent the new contributions of this paper.

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Zapoměl ◽  
Petr Ferfecki ◽  
Paola Forte

Unbalance is the principal cause of excitation of lateral vibrations of rotors and generation of the forces transmitted through the rotor supports to the foundations. These effects can be significantly reduced if damping devices are added to the constraint elements. To achieve their optimum performance, their damping effect must be controllable. The possibility of controlling the damping force is offered by magnetorheological squeeze film dampers. This article presents an original investigation of the dynamical behavior of a rigid flexibly supported rotor loaded by its unbalance and equipped with two short magnetorheological squeeze film dampers. In the computational model, the rotor is considered as absolutely rigid and the dampers are represented by force couplings. The pressure distribution in the lubricating layer is governed by a modified Reynolds equation adapted for Bingham material, which is used to model the magnetorheological fluid. To obtain the steady state solution of the equations of motion, a collocation method is employed. Stability of the periodic vibrations is evaluated by means of the Floquet theory. The proposed approach to study the behavior of rigid rotors damped by semi-active squeeze film magnetorheological dampers and the developed efficient computational methods to calculate the system steady state response and to evaluate its stability represent new contributions of this article.


Author(s):  
T. N. Shiau ◽  
J. S. Rao ◽  
J. R. Chang ◽  
Siu-Tong Choi

This paper is concerned with the dynamic behavior of geared rotor systems supported by squeeze film dampers, wherein coupled bending torsion vibrations occur. Considering the imbalance forces and gravity, it is shown that geared rotors exhibit chaotic behavior due to non linearity of damper forces. The route to chaos in such systems is established. In geared rotor systems, it is shown that torsional excitation can induce lateral vibrations. It is shown that squeeze film dampers can suppress large amplitudes of whirl arising out of torsional excitation.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Fu ◽  
Guojin Feng ◽  
Jiaojiao Ma ◽  
Kuan Lu ◽  
Yongfeng Yang ◽  
...  

In this paper, the non-probabilistic steady-state dynamics of a dual-rotor system with parametric uncertainties under two-frequency excitations are investigated using the non-intrusive simplex form mathematical metamodel. The Lagrangian formulation is employed to derive the equations of motion (EOM) of the system. The simplex form metamodel without the distribution functions of the interval uncertainties is formulated in a non-intrusive way. In the multi-uncertain cases, strategies aimed at reducing the computational cost are incorporated. In numerical simulations for different interval parametric uncertainties, the special propagation mechanism is observed, which cannot be found in single rotor systems. Validations of the metamodel in terms of efficiency and accuracy are also carried out by comparisons with the scanning method. The results will be helpful to understand the dynamic behaviors of dual-rotor systems subject to uncertainties and provide guidance for robust design and analysis.


1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Dennis ◽  
R. H. Eriksson ◽  
L. H. Seitelman

A method to determine the transient response of damped single or multi-shaft rotor systems is presented. The rotor systems are idealized as rotating concentrated masses connected by massless beams, discrete springs, and dampers. The springs may have piecewise constant springs rates to simulate the stiffening effect of parts coming in contact after displacement through an initial offset. Arbitrary forcing functions are allowed. The method employs an incremental formulation in which damping gyroscopic and nonlinear terms are treated as external loads which are lagged in time. The equations of motion are uncoupled by performing a normal mode expansion of the response solution in terms of the non-rotating, undamped eigenvectors and their associated eigenvalues; modes and natural frequencies are obtained from a standard Prohl analysis. An analytical solution is used for each step of the incremental analysis. This technique has been used to study the response of a number of rotor systems to the sudden application of a rotating imbalance load. The systems studied include a dual shaft model of a rig, a single-shaft case from the written literature and a large multi-line (multi-shaft) system. The transient analysis was run out to steady-state and close agreement obtained with results from an independent steady-state forced response analysis. Orthogonality relations between the mode shapes were observed to be critical to the quality of the results. It was observed that transient analysis of multi-line systems can be accurately predicted only if the higher frequency modes which are participating in the response are included in the normal mode solution.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. N. Shiau ◽  
J. S. Rao ◽  
J. R. Chang ◽  
S.-T. Choi

This paper is concerned with the dynamic behavior of geared rotor systems supported by squeeze film dampers, wherein coupled bending torsion vibrations occur. Considering the imbalance forces and gravity, it is shown that geared rotors exhibit chaotic behavior due to nonlinearity of damper forces. The route to chaos in such systems is established. In geared rotor systems, it is shown that torsional excitation can induce lateral vibrations. It is shown that squeeze film dampers can suppress large amplitudes of whirl arising out of torsional excitation.


2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632199358
Author(s):  
Ali Fasihi ◽  
Majid Shahgholi ◽  
Saeed Ghahremani

The potential of absorbing and harvesting energy from a two-degree-of-freedom airfoil using an attachment of a nonlinear energy sink and a piezoelectric energy harvester is investigated. The equations of motion of the airfoil coupled with the attachment are solved using the harmonic balance method. Solutions obtained by this method are compared to the numerical ones of the pseudo-arclength continuation method. The effects of parameters of the integrated nonlinear energy sink-piezoelectric attachment, namely, the attachment location, nonlinear energy sink mass, nonlinear energy sink damping, and nonlinear energy sink stiffness on the dynamical behavior of the airfoil system are studied for both subcritical and supercritical Hopf bifurcation cases. Analyses demonstrate that absorbing vibration and harvesting energy are profoundly affected by the nonlinear energy sink parameters and the location of the attachment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1395
Author(s):  
Abdelali El Aroudi ◽  
Natalia Cañas-Estrada ◽  
Mohamed Debbat ◽  
Mohamed Al-Numay

This paper presents a study of the nonlinear dynamic behavior a flying capacitor four-level three-cell DC-DC buck converter. Its stability analysis is performed and its stability boundaries is determined in the multi-dimensional paramertic space. First, the switched model of the converter is presented. Then, a discrete-time controller for the converter is proposed. The controller is is responsible for both balancing the flying capacitor voltages from one hand and for output current regulation. Simulation results from the switched model of the converter under the proposed controller are presented. The results show that the system may undergo bifurcation phenomena and period doubling route to chaos when some system parameters are varied. One-dimensional bifurcation diagrams are computed and used to explore the possible dynamical behavior of the system. By using Floquet theory and Filippov method to derive the monodromy matrix, the bifurcation behavior observed in the converter is accurately predicted. Based on justified and realistic approximations of the system state variables waveforms, simple and accurate expressions for these steady-state values and the monodromy matrix are derived and validated. The simple expression of the steady-state operation and the monodromy matrix allow to analytically predict the onset of instability in the system and the stability region in the parametric space is determined. Numerical simulations from the exact switched model validate the theoretical predictions.


Helmholtz was the first to remark on the instability of those “liquid surfaces” which separate portions of fluid moving with different velocities, and Kelvin, in investigating the influence of wind on waves in water, supposed frictionless, has discussed the conditions under which a plane surface of water becomes unstable. Adopting Kelvin’s method, Rayleigh investigated the instability of a surface of discontinuity. A clear and easily accessible rendering of the discussion is given by Lamb. The above investigations are conducted upon the well-known principle of “small oscillations”—there is a basic steady motion, upon which is superposed a flow, the squares of whose components of velocity can be neglected. This method has the advantage of making the equations of motion linear. If by this method the flow is found to be stable, the equations of motion give the subsequent history of the system, for the small oscillations about the steady state always remain “small.” If, however, the method indicates that the system is unstable, that is, if the deviations from the steady state increase exponentially with the time, the assumption of small motions cannot, after an appropriate interval of time, be applied to the case under consideration, and the equations of motion, in their approximate form, no longer give a picture of the flow. For this reason, which is well known, the investigations of Rayleigh only prove the existence of instability during the initial stages of the motion. It is the object of this note to investigate the form assumed by the surface of discontinuity when the displacements and velocities are no longer small.


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