Abstract
This work is aimed at obtaining the transient response of an overhung rotor when there are impacts occurring in the system. An overhung rotor clamped on one end, with a flywheel on the other and impacts occurring in between, due to a bearing with clearance, is considered. The system is modeled as a continuous rotor system and the governing partial differential equations are set up and solved. The method of assumed modes is used to discretize the system in order to solve the partial differential equations. Using this method numerical experiments are run and a few of the results are presented. The different numerical issues involved are also discussed. An experimental setup was built to run experiments and validate the results. Preliminary experimental observations are presented to show qualitative comparison of theory and experiments.
