Analysis and Selection of Fluid-Film Bearings for Spool-Shaft Gas Turbines

1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-606
Author(s):  
W. Shapiro ◽  
R. Colsher ◽  
O. Decker
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Ambient Pressure ◽  
Time History ◽  
Fluid Film ◽  
Fluid Film Bearings ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Speed Rotation

The mechanical simplicity and damping qualities of fluid-film bearings makes them attractive possibilities for spool-shaft bearings of gas turbines. The simultaneous high-speed rotation of journal and bearing, however, causes whirl stability to be a major problem. Computerized analysis was utilized to screen a spectrum of practical candidate configurations. Stability threshold plots were expeditiously generated using accurately determined cross-coupled spring and damping coefficients to represent the bearings. Performance of each bearing type was determined as a function of configuration, ambient pressure, and machined clearance. The selected three-lobe design was further tested with a “time-transient” analysis that accurately traced a complete time history of the motions of the system in its various degrees of freedom.

Case History of a Failure of a Gas Turbine With a Floating Sleeve Bearing

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Petchenev ◽  
Donald E. Bently ◽  
Agnes Muszynska ◽  
Paul Goldman ◽  
Robert L. Grissom
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Case History ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Surface Friction ◽  
High Amplitude ◽  
Lateral Instability ◽  
Sleeve Bearing ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Speed Rotation

Abstract The paper presents a case history of failure of a gas turbine, which was manifested in high vibrations, loud noise, and, eventually, damaged parts, such as impellers, bearings, and probes were discovered. The turbine features a bearing with floating sleeve design, originally intended to reduce lubricant relative speeds within the bearing (that is, decreasing journal to bearing speed gradient throughout the lubricant circumferential flow, breaking the flow in two sections, at both surfaces of the floating sleeve). In this turbine, the floating sleeve bearing was the major cause of the failure. It contributed to restraining the oil supply from the journal/thrust bearing assembly, which resulted in high amplitude lateral subsynchronous 1/3X vibrations. The event was accompanied by oil charring in the bearing and, due to overheating, melting of the brass thrust washer, which was in addition to mechanical deterioration. In the paper, several disadvantages of a floating sleeve bearing are discussed, such as: • Floating ring lateral instability. • Floating ring axial instability, unusual for other types of journal bearings. As a consequence, inevitable metal-to-metal surface friction occurs within the bearing in axial and lateral directions, thus increasing tendency to oil charring. The major objective for using the floating sleeve, the reduction of relative speeds within the bearing, is not achieved: The sleeve does not prevent lubricant from high speed rotation and creates further potentially severe malfunctions of the turbine.

scholarly journals Improvement of Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing Operating Characteristics by Application of Eddy Grooves

Lubricants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Eckhard Schüler ◽  
Olaf Berner
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
Fluid Film ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Fluid Film Bearings ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
Bearing Load ◽  
Bearing Loads ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearing

In high speed, high load fluid-film bearings, the laminar-turbulent flow transition can lead to a considerable reduction of the maximum bearing temperatures, due to a homogenization of the fluid-film temperature in radial direction. Since this phenomenon only occurs significantly in large bearings or at very high sliding speeds, means to achieve the effect at lower speeds have been investigated in the past. This paper shows an experimental investigation of this effect and how it can be used for smaller bearings by optimized eddy grooves, machined into the bearing surface. The investigations were carried out on a Miba journal bearing test rig with Ø120 mm shaft diameter at speeds between 50 m/s–110 m/s and at specific bearing loads up to 4.0 MPa. To investigate the potential of this technology, additional temperature probes were installed at the crucial position directly in the sliding surface of an up-to-date tilting pad journal bearing. The results show that the achieved surface temperature reduction with the optimized eddy grooves is significant and represents a considerable enhancement of bearing load capacity. This increase in performance opens new options for the design of bearings and related turbomachinery applications.

scholarly journals Sound Noise Generated from Ball Bearing in High Speed Rotation

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (158) ◽  
pp. 1306-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akio NAGAMATSU ◽  
Masaho FUKUDA
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Ball Bearing ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
Speed Rotation

Analysis of the Lubrication Regimes at the Small End and Big End of a Connecting Rod of a High Performance Motorbike Engine

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Bertocchi ◽  
Matteo Giacopini ◽  
Daniele Dini
Keyword(s):  
Rotational Speed ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Hydrodynamic Lubrication ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Connecting Rod ◽  
Lubrication Regimes ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
Speed Rotation ◽  
Squeeze Effect

In the present paper, the algorithm proposed by Giacopini et. al. [1], based on a mass-conserving formulation of the Reynolds equation using the concept of complementarity is suitably extended to include the effects of compressibility, piezoviscosity and shear-thinning on the lubricant properties. This improved algorithm is employed to analyse the performance of the lubricated small end and big end bearings of a connecting rod of a high performance motorbike engine. The application of the algorithm proposed to both the small end and the big end of a con-rod is challenging because of the different causes that sustain the hydrodynamic lubrication in the two cases. In the con-rod big end, the fluid film is mainly generated by the relative high speed rotation between the rod and the crankshaft. The relative speed between the two races forms a wedge of fluid that assures appropriate lubrication and avoids undesired direct contacts. On the contrary, at the con-rod small end the relative rotational speed is low and a complete rotation between the mating surfaces does not occurs since the con-rod only oscillates around its vertical axis. Thus, at every revolution of the crankshaft, there are two different moments in which the relative rotational speed between the con-rod and the piston pin is null. Therefore, the dominant effect in the lubrication is the squeeze caused by the high loads transmitted through the piston pin. In particular both combustion forces and inertial forces contribute to the squeeze effect. This work shows how the formulation developed by the authors is capable of predicting the performance of journal bearings in the unsteady regime, where cavitation and reformation occur several times. Moreover, the effects of the pressure and the shear rate on the density and on the viscosity of the lubricant are taken into account.

Research on Calibration Method of Tire Dynamic Balance Detection System

2012 ◽  
Vol 542-543 ◽  
pp. 828-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Fang Yang ◽  
Xian Ying Feng ◽  
Hong Jun Fu ◽  
Lian Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Calibration Method ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Influence Coefficient ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
Speed Rotation ◽  
Upper Rim

Tire dynamic balance detection plays an important part in tire quality detection area. This paper uses the two-sided balance method to obtain the unbalance of the tire. According to the engineering practice, builds kinetic model and then introduces the calculating principle and operating procedures. In order to accurately determine the influence coefficient, a calibration method without tire is put forward. Further more, this new method is able to eliminate the unbalance caused by non-quality factors to some extent. But this method is presented based on the relative position invariance of the upper rim and lower rim, even both of them are under high-speed rotation situation. Finally, the experimental data acquired from both of the two methods are compared. The calibration method without tire is proved to be more feasible, efficient and accurate.

Improvement of Silver Recovery Efficiency by High-Speed Rotation

2003 ◽  
Vol 439 ◽  
pp. 156-162
Author(s):  
A. Da Camara ◽  
Joaquín Lira-Olivares ◽  
Soo Wohn Lee ◽  
H.D. Park ◽  
Y.S. Park
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Recovery Efficiency ◽  
Silver Recovery ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
Speed Rotation

High-speed Rotation and Speed Stability of the Sodium-driven Flagellar Motor inVibrio alginolyticus

1995 ◽  
Vol 251 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazumasa Muramoto ◽  
Ikuro Kawagishi ◽  
Seishi Kudo ◽  
Yukio Magariyama ◽  
Yasuo Imae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Flagellar Motor ◽  
High Speed Rotation ◽  
Speed Rotation ◽  
Speed Stability

scholarly journals The history effect in bubble growth and dissolution. Part 1. Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 800 ◽  
pp. 180-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Peñas-López ◽  
Miguel A. Parrales ◽  
Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
Devaraj van der Meer
Keyword(s):  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Ambient Pressure ◽  
Time History ◽  
Interfacial Concentration ◽  
Interface Concentration ◽  
Governing Differential Equation ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Effect ◽  
Isothermal Regime

The term ‘history effect’ refers to the contribution of any past mass transfer events between a gas bubble and its liquid surroundings towards the current diffusion-driven growth or dissolution dynamics of that same bubble. The history effect arises from the (non-instantaneous) development of the dissolved gas concentration boundary layer in the liquid in response to changes in the concentration at the bubble interface caused, for instance, by variations of the ambient pressure in time. Essentially, the history effect amounts to the acknowledgement that at any given time the mass flux across the bubble is conditioned by the preceding time history of the concentration at the bubble boundary. Considering the canonical problem of an isolated spherical bubble at rest, we show that the contribution of the history effect in the current interfacial concentration gradient is fully contained within a memory integral of the interface concentration. Retaining this integral term, we formulate a governing differential equation for the bubble dynamics, analogous to the well-known Epstein–Plesset solution. Our equation does not make use of the quasi-static radius approximation. An analytical solution is presented for the case of multiple step-like jumps in pressure. The nature and relevance of the history effect is then assessed through illustrative examples. Finally, we investigate the role of the history effect in rectified diffusion for a bubble that pulsates under harmonic pressure forcing in the non-inertial, isothermal regime.

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