scholarly journals Approximating unstable operation speeds of automatic ball balancers based on design parameters

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Spannan ◽  
Elmar Woschke

Automatic balancers present a modular possibility to counteract variable rotor unbalances during operation. Two or more balancing masses, usually spheres, can orbit in a fluid-filled annular cavity whose axis of symmetry coincides with the rotor axis. At supercritical speeds the masses -- driven by the rotor deflection -- tend towards stationary positions inside the cavity opposing the primary rotor unbalance.Related to the phenomenon of rotating shafts being captured at resonances due to insufficient drive power, automatic ball balancers inhibit operation speed bands with non-synchronous vibrations where the rotor surpassed the resonance but the balls continue to orbit with the eigenfrequency with respect to the inertial system. As a result, the balancing masses do not take stationary positions inside the cavity and the rotor is excited not only by the primary unbalance but also by the sub-synchronously orbiting balancing masses.The width of the operation speed band exhibiting non-synchronous behaviour depends on the balancing masses, the orbit radius, external damping of the rotor and viscous damping of the balls due to the fluid inside the cavity. For a planar oscillator in isotropic supports with a balancer containing two balancing balls, an explicit correlation between the stability border and the fluid damping is presented. In order to parameterize the fluid damping model, the drag on spheres in annular cavities is examined and a proposed relation based on the cavity geometry and the fluid properties is presented.

Author(s):  
Masoud Rahmani ◽  
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Amin Moslemi Petrudi ◽  

In this paper, the nonlinear motions of marine risers are studied using the Newton's Harmonic Balance Method (NHBM). The nonlinear vibrational equations of the marine risers were obtained in the present study using the Hamilton principle and the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. The Galerkin's decomposition technique is used to convert the partial differential governing equation (PDE) of the riser vibrations to the ordinary differential equation (ODE). By using the NHBM method, an analytical formulation has been obtained to express the natural nonlinear frequency of the riser. The effect of design parameters such as riser length and initial static displacement of high support has been investigated on riser frequency, which shows acceptable accuracy after comparing the results with previous research. The results show that fluid damping coefficient has a great effect on system instability and reducing this coefficient increases the stability range of the system. Examining the effect of nonlinear parameters shows that the effect of these parameters is greater in large amplitude of motion.


Author(s):  
Masoud Rahmani ◽  
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Amin Moslemi Petrudi ◽  

In this paper, the nonlinear motions of marine risers are studied using the Newton's Harmonic Balance Method (NHBM). The nonlinear vibrational equations of the marine risers were obtained in the present study using the Hamilton principle and the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. The Galerkin's decomposition technique is used to convert the partial differential governing equation (PDE) of the riser vibrations to the ordinary differential equation (ODE). By using the NHBM method, an analytical formulation has been obtained to express the natural nonlinear frequency of the riser. The effect of design parameters such as riser length and initial static displacement of high support has been investigated on riser frequency, which shows acceptable accuracy after comparing the results with previous research. The results show that fluid damping coefficient has a great effect on system instability and reducing this coefficient increases the stability range of the system. Examining the effect of nonlinear parameters shows that the effect of these parameters is greater in large amplitude of motion.


Robotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Hongkai Li ◽  
Xianfei Sun ◽  
Zishuo Chen ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Hongchao Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Inspired by gecko’s adhesive feet, a wheeled wall climbing robot is designed in this paper with the synchronized gears and belt system acting as the wheels by considering both motion efficiency and adhesive capability. Adhesion of wheels is obtained by the bio-inspired adhesive material wrapping on the outer surface of wheels. A ducted fan mounted on the back of the robot supplies thrust force for the adhesive material to generate normal and shear adhesion force whilemoving on vertical surfaces. Experimental verification of robot climbing on vertical flat surface was carried out. The stability and the effect of structure design parameters were analyzed.


1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. P. Atkinson

This paper presents a method for analyzing a pair of coupled nonlinear differential equations of the Duffing type in order to determine whether linearly related modal oscillations of the system are possible. The system has two masses, a coupling spring and two anchor springs. For the systems studied, the anchor springs are symmetric but the masses are not. The method requires the solution of a polynomial of fourth degree which reduces to a quadratic because of the symmetric springs. The roots are a function of the spring constants. When a particular set of spring constants is chosen, roots can be found which are then used to set the necessary mass ratio for linear modal oscillations. Limits on the ranges of spring-constant ratios for real roots and positive-mass ratios are given. A general stability analysis is presented with expressions for the stability in terms of the spring constants and masses. Two specific examples are given.


2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Shahin ◽  
Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury ◽  
Md. Arefin Kowser ◽  
Uttam Kumar Debnath ◽  
M.H. Monir

Purpose The purposes of the present study are to ensure higher sustainability of journal bearings under different applied loads and to observe bearing performances such as elastic strain, total deformation and stress formation. Design/methodology/approach A journal bearing test rig was used to determine the effect of the applied load on the bearing friction, film thickness, lubricant film pressure, etc. A steady-state analysis was performed to obtain the bearing performance. Findings An efficient aspect ratio (L/D) range was obtained to increase the durability or the stability of the bearing while the bearing is in the working condition by using SAE 5W-30 oil. The results from the study were compared with previous studies in which different types of oil and water, such as Newtonian fluid (NF), magnetorheological fluid (MRF) and nonmagnetorheological fluid (NMRF), were used as the lubricant. To ensure a preferable aspect ratio range (0.25-0.50), a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was conducted by ANSYS; the results show a lower elastic strain and deformation within the preferable aspect ratio (0.25-0.50) rather than a higher aspect ratio using the SAE 5W-30 oil. Originality/value It is expected that the findings of this study will contribute to the improvement of the bearing design and the bearing lubricating system.


Author(s):  
James F. White ◽  
Oddvar O. Bendiksen

The aeroelastic stability of titanium and composite blades of low aspect ratio is examined over a range of design parameters, using a Rayleigh-Ritz formulation. The blade modes include a plate-type mode to account for chordwise bending. Chordwise flexibility is found to have a significant effect on the unstalled supersonic flutter of low aspect ratio blades, and also on the stability of tip sections of shrouded fan blades. For blades with a thickness of less than approximately four percent of chord, the chordwise, second bending, and first torsion branches are all unstable at moderately high supersonic Mach numbers. For composite blades, the important structural coupling between bending and torsion cannot be modeled properly unless chordwise bending is accounted for. Typically, aft fiber sweep produces beneficial bending-torsion coupling that is stabilizing, whereas forward fiber sweep has the opposite effect. By using crossed-ply laminate configurations, critical aeroelastic modes can be stabilized.


2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afshin Khoshand ◽  
Ali Fathi ◽  
Milad Zoghi ◽  
Hamidreza Kamalan

One of the most common and economical methods for waste disposal is landfilling. The landfill cover system is one of the main components of landfills which prevents waste exposure to the environment by creating a barrier between the waste and the surrounding environment. The stability and integrity of the landfill cover system is a fundamental part of the design, construction, and maintenance of landfills. A reinforced tapered landfill cover system can be considered as a practical method for improving its stability; however, the simultaneous effects of seismic and seepage forces in the reinforced tapered landfill cover system have not been studied. The current paper provides a solution based on the limit equilibrium method in order to evaluate the stability of a reinforced tapered landfill cover system under seismic and seepage (both horizontal and parallel seepage force patterns) loading conditions. The proposed analytical approach is applied to different design cases through parametric study and the obtained results are compared to those derived from literature. Parametric study is performed to illustrate the sensitivity of the safety factor (FS) to the different design parameters. The obtained results reveal that parameters which describe the geometry have limited effects on the stability of the landfill cover system in comparison to the rest of the studied design parameters. Moreover, the comparisons between the derived results and available methods demonstrate good agreement between obtained findings with those reported in the literature.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 1611-1626 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.P. BAKULEV ◽  
S.V. MIKHAILOV

In a recent paper1 we have proposed a new approach for extracting the wave function of the π-meson φπ(x) and the masses and wave functions of its first resonances from the new QCD sum rules for nondiagonal correlators obtained in Ref. 2. Here, we test our approach using an exactly solvable toy model as illustration. We demonstrate the validity of the method and suggest a pure algebraic procedure for extracting the masses and wave functions relating to the case under investigation. We also explore the stability of the procedure under perturbations of the theoretical part of the sum rule. In application to the pion case, this results not only in the mass and wave function of the first resonance (π′), but also in the estimation of π″-mass.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Díaz-Cacho Medina ◽  
Emma Delgado Romero ◽  
Antonio Barreiro Blas

Network and control relationship is an essential aspect in the design of networked control systems (NCSs). The design parameters are mainly centered in the transmission rate and in the packet structure, and some studies have been made to determine how transmission rate affects the network delay and consequently the stability of the control. In Internet, these analysis are mathematically complex due to the large number of different potential scenarios. Using empirical methods, this work deduces that the transmission scheduling problem of an NCS can be solved by designing an appropriate transport protocol, taken into account high and periodic sampling rates. The transport protocol features are determined by simulation, using a new test platform based on the NS2 network simulation suite, to develop control/network codesign solutions. Conclusions of this paper are that the transport features are packet-loss-based flow control, best effort, and fairness, supplemented by a packet priority scheme.


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