Erratum: “Lateral Vibration Attenuation of Shafts Supported by Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing With Embedded Electromagnetic Actuators” [ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2014, 136(4), p. 042503 DOI: 10.1115/1.4026038]

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Pizarro Viveros ◽  
Rodrigo Nicoletti
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Lateral Vibration ◽  
Electromagnetic Actuators ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
Vibration Attenuation ◽  
Asme Journal ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearing

Lateral Vibration Attenuation of Shafts Supported by Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing With Embedded Electromagnetic Actuators

2013 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Pizarro Viveros ◽  
Rodrigo Nicoletti
Keyword(s):  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Electromagnetic Actuators ◽  
Hydrodynamic Bearing ◽  
Rotating Speed ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
Vibration Attenuation ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearing ◽  
The Mathematical Model ◽  
Good Agreement

Hydrodynamic tilting-pad bearings with electromagnetic actuators are designed to take advantage of the load-carrying capacity of the hydrodynamic bearing together with the actuation capacity of the electromagnets. Hence, actuators can be downsized because they do not work as bearings as it is the case of magnetic bearings. In this work, one presents the numerical and experimental analysis of rotor vibration attenuation using a tilting-pad journal bearing with embedded electromagnetic actuators when proportional-derivative (PD) control is implemented. Experimental results in the frequency domain show reductions in shaft-vibration amplitude of 11% for the rotating speed of 600 rpm and 18% for the rotating speed of 1100 rpm, with good agreement of the mathematical model. The actuation capacity of the bearing in study is compared to the capacity of other active bearings in literature, showing that the present bearing is competitive in terms of specific control capacity.

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.

Dynamic Analysis of Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing—Influence of Pad Deformations

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Desbordes ◽  
M. Fillon ◽  
C. Chan Hew Wai ◽  
J. Frene
Keyword(s):  
Film Thickness ◽  
Pressure Field ◽  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Maximum Pressure ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
Minimum Film Thickness ◽  
Dimensional Finite Element ◽  
The One ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearing ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearings

A theoretical nonlinear analysis of tilting-pad journal bearings is presented for small and large unbalance loads under isothermal conditions. The radial displacements of internal pad surface due to pressure field are determined by a two-dimensional finite element method in order to define the actual film thickness. The influence of pad deformations on the journal orbit, on the minimum film thickness and on the maximum pressure is studied. The effects of pad displacements are to decrease the minimum film thickness and to increase the maximum pressure. The orbit amplitude is also increased by 20 percent for the large unbalance load compared to the one obtained for rigid pad.

Tilting Pad Journal Bearings: A Discussion on Stability Calculation, Frequency Dependence, and Pad and Pivot Flexibility

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason C. Wilkes ◽  
Dara W. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Operating Temperature ◽  
Excitation Frequency ◽  
Full Model ◽  
Stability Calculation ◽  
Damping Coefficients ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
Stiffness And Damping ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearing

For several years, researchers have presented predictions showing that using a full tilting-pad journal bearing (TPJB) model (retaining all of the pad degrees of freedom) is necessary to accurately perform stability calculations for a shaft operating on TPJBs. This paper will discuss this issue, discuss the importance of pad and pivot flexibility in predicting impedance coefficients for the tilting-pad journal bearing, present measured changes in bearing clearance with operating temperature, and summarize the differences between measured and predicted frequency dependence of dynamic impedance coefficients. The current work presents recent test data for a 100 mm (4 in) five-pad TPJB tested in load on pad (LOP) configuration. Measured results include bearing clearance as a function of operating temperature, pad clearance and radial displacement of the loaded pad (the pad having the static load vector directed through its pivot), and frequency dependent stiffness and damping. Measured hot bearing clearances are approximately 30% smaller than measured cold bearing clearances and are inversely proportional to pad surface temperature; predicting bearing impedances with a rigid pad and pivot model using these reduced clearances results in overpredicted stiffness and damping coefficients that are several times larger than previous comparisons. The effect of employing a full bearing model versus a reduced bearing model (where only journal degrees of freedom are retained) in a stability calculation for a realistic rotor-bearing system is assessed. For the bearing tested, the bearing coefficients reduced at the frequency of the unstable eigenvalue (subsynchronously reduced) predicted a destabilizing cross-coupled stiffness coefficient at the onset of instability within 1% of the full model, while synchronously reduced coefficients for the lightly loaded bearing required 25% more destabilizing cross-coupled stiffness than the full model to cause system instability. The same stability calculation was performed using measured stiffness and damping coefficients at synchronous and subsynchronous frequencies. These predictions showed that both the synchronously measured stiffness and damping and predictions using the full bearing model were more conservative than the model using subsynchronously measured stiffness and damping, an outcome that is completely opposite from conclusions reached by comparing different prediction models. This contrasting outcome results from a predicted increase in damping with increasing excitation frequency at all speeds and loads; however, this increase in damping with increasing excitation frequency was only measured at the most heavily loaded conditions.

Experimental Determination of Dynamic Characteristics of a Full Size Gas Turbine Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing by an Impact Test Method

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Chan ◽  
M. F. White
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Impact Test ◽  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Estimation Procedure ◽  
Response Spectra ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Full Size ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
Tilting Pad Journal Bearing ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Measurements have been taken on an experimental rotor-bearing test rig which consists of a full size gas turbine shaft supported by two five-pad tilting-pad journal bearings. The impact test method was applied by exciting one end of the shaft in-situ by means of a hammer blow. Impact forces and response displacements were collected and analysed with suitable corrections for runout effect. Averaged frequency response spectra thus obtained were used in a parameter estimation procedure to calculate the dynamic coefficients of the tested tilting-pad journal bearing. An analytical single degree-of-freedom model was employed and one of the input parameters in the mechanical model, the effective mass, was found to significantly influence the estimated results. The measured stiffness and damping coefficients are compared with results predicted by a bearing design program. Possible sources of discrepancies between experimental and theoretical results are discussed.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document