Development of Compact Damper Bearing

Author(s):  
Hiroshi Kanki ◽  
Yosichika Sato ◽  
Takayuki Ueshima

The squeeze film damper bearings have been successfully applied for important rotating machinery such as aero engine, high pressure centrifugal compressors[1] and steam turbine[2]. This paper proposes the expansion of application of the damper bearing for small and medium sized rotating machinery. The new damper has a compact size that enable standard design combined with rolling element bearing. A new design of the damper is presented. The new design consists of thin ring and special patterned wire cut grooves. The design analysis and experimental study are presented. The dynamic tests were carried out for this model damper, one is no side seal and the other is with side seals in both ends. Test results showed the sufficient damping effect for actual applications.

2011 ◽  
Vol 199-200 ◽  
pp. 1020-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Qing Wang ◽  
Yong Wei Guo ◽  
Jian Feng Yang ◽  
Liu Yang Song ◽  
Jia Pan ◽  
...  

The fault of a bearing may cause the breakdown of a rotating machine, leading to serious consequences. A rolling element bearing is an important part of, and is widely used in rotating machinery. Therefore, fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is important for guaranteeing production efficiency and plant safety. Although many studies have been carried out with the goal of achieving fault diagnosis of a bearing, most of these works were studied for rotating machinery with a high rotating speed rather than with a low rotating speed. Fault diagnosis for bearings under a low rotating speed, is more difficult than under a high rotating speed. Because bearing faults signal is very weak under a low rotating speed. This work acquires vibration and acoustic emission signals from the rolling bearing under low speed respectively, and analyzes the both kinds of signals in time domain and frequency domain for diagnosing the typical bearing faults contrastively. This paper also discussed the advantages using the acoustic emission signal for fault diagnosis of rolling speed bearing. From the results of analysis and experiment we can find the effectiveness of acoustic emission signal is better than vibration signal for fault diagnosis of a bearing under the low speed.


1977 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Cusano ◽  
P. E. Funk

The purpose of this investigation is to study the transmissibility characteristics of a centrally preloaded porous bearing squeeze-film damper supporting a rolling element bearing. Using the short-bearing approximation and isothermal, incompressible lubrication, transient and steady-state data are presented which show that, for the range of parameters considered, porous bearing dampers exhibit superior transmissibility characteristics over equivalent dampers using solid bearings. The data presented are for squeeze-film porous bearings having a wall thickness-to-length ratio of 0.1 and three degrees of permeability, including the case of zero permeability which corresponds to a solid bearing.


1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rao S. Zhou ◽  
Fukuo Hashimoto

Plasticity indexes are usually used to describe the elastic-plastic deformation properties of a rough surface. The contact surfaces of any new rolling element bearing always change during the bearing run-in period until arriving upon a relatively stable surface texture. In this paper, a new random isotropic surface with very low plasticity index is proposed and created for the surfaces of rolling elements bearings. From both the calculated surface parameters and the run-in torque test results, the special rolling contact surfaces demonstrated “No Run-In” characteristics. Lower running torque is obtained from bearing tests and longer fatigue life is also expected by the subsurface stress analysis.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang-Gyu Jei ◽  
Jong-Soo Kim ◽  
Seong-Wook Hong ◽  
Si-Young Jung

The present paper introduces a new lateral vibration damper using leaf springs and oil. This damper, named as a leaf spring damper (LSD), has several beneficial rotordynamic advantages. The leaf spring vibration damper, unlike the well-known squeeze film damper, is simple and easy enough to design the required stiffness and damping coefficients. Furthermore, the damper can be designed as a unit product joined with a rolling element bearing. A theoretical modeling procedure for leaf spring damper is presented in detail. Prototypes of the leaf spring damper are manufactured to test the dynamic characteristics of the damper. Experiments are performed to measure the stiffness and the damping coefficients of the damper.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Hannon ◽  
Todd A. Barr ◽  
Shawn T. Froelich

This paper concludes a series of papers outlining a new rolling-element bearing heat transfer model. Part I provided the model framework, Part II presented the partial differential equation (PDE) solutions, and Part III, this paper, presents full-scale test results for ball, cylindrical, spherical, and tapered rolling-element bearings. The results validate the heat partitioning equation and the predicted solid temperatures for circulating oil lubrication. In addition, sump lubrication was studied using an acrylic assembly. The results quantify what fraction of the bearing periphery is cooled by oil, as well as the flow of oil through a bearing. Finally, substantiation of the modeling assumptions is discussed.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
HongChao Wang ◽  
WenLiao Du

Rolling element bearing is one of the most commonly used supporting parts in rotating machinery, and it is also one of the most easily failing rotating parts. It is of great safety and economic significance to study the effective fault diagnosis method of rolling element bearing. The fault characteristic signal of rolling bearing is often affected by other interference signals in practical engineering, and the situation is much more serious when the rolling bearing fault occurs in gearbox. Besides, only a limited number of measuring points are used in the process of rolling bearing fault signal acquisition due to the limitation of sensors installation condition. In some sense, the above two factors often cause the result that the fault diagnosis of rolling bearing is the problem of underdetermined blind source separation. The independence and non-Gaussian characteristic of the observed signals are the prerequisite of most of existent blind source separation methods. Unlike traditional blind source separation methods, SCA originating from sparse representation is an effective method to solve the problem of underdetermined blind source separation, because it does not require the independence or non-Gaussian characteristics of the observed signals, and it only makes full use of the sparse characteristics of the observed signals to extract the source signal from the observed signals. Based on these, a sparse component analysis (SCA) method based on linear clustering (LC) named LC-SCA is proposed for the purpose of underdetermined blind source separation of vibration signals of rolling element bearing, and the LC is introduced into SCA to improve the computation efficiency of SCA. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experiment. In addition, the superiority of the method is verified by comparison with the other related methods such as constrained independent component analysis (cICA) and SCA.


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