scholarly journals Influences of Hydrodynamic Forces on the Identification of the Rotor-Stator-Rubbing Fault in a Rotating Machinery

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Bernard Xavier Tchomeni ◽  
Desejo Filipeson Sozinando ◽  
Alfayo Alugongo

Mechanical failures of a complex machine such as rotor widely used in severe conditions often require specialized knowledge, technical expertise, and imagination to prevent its rupture. In this paper, a model for analyzing excitation of a coupled lateral-torsional vibrations of a shaft system in an inviscid fluid is proposed. The model considers the recurrent contact of the vibrating shaft to a fixed stator. The simplified mathematical model of the rotor-stator system is established based on the energy principle. The dynamic characteristics of the fluid-rotor system are studied, and the features of rub-impact are extracted numerically and validated experimentally under the effects of the unbalance and the hydrodynamic forces. The main contribution of this article is in extraction and identification of the rub features in an inviscid medium which proved to be complex by the obstruction of the fluid and required the use of appropriate signal processing tools. The results through a synchrosqueezing wavelet transform indicated that the exciting fluid force could significantly attenuate the instability and amplitude of rubbing rotor. The experimental results demonstrated that for half the first critical speed, the subharmonic 1 / 2 × Ω and the irregular orbit patterns provide good indices for rub detection in an inviscid fluid of the rotating shafts. Finally, it is revealed that the instantaneous frequency extraction based on wavelet synchrosqueezing is a useful tool to identify the weak and hidden peak harmonics localised in the time-frequency maps of the fluid-rotor system.

Author(s):  
Hao Li ◽  
Haipeng Geng ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Wei Zheng

In this paper, a rotordynamic experiment on a compressor rotor system is presented and the feasibility of gas foil bearings with inhomogeneous bump foils is verified. A push–pull device is designed to obtain the stiffness curve and the nominal clearance of foil bearings. Operating points and dynamic coefficients of the rotor system at each rotating speed are predicted. In rotordynamic analysis, an alternative model of the impeller is proposed and the critical speed is predicted by employing the finite element method, in which the dynamic coefficients of inhomogeneous foil bearings are taken into account. Compared with the experimental result, the accuracy of the prediction for the critical speed is verified to be about 14% error. Two sets of foil bearings with 22 and 41 μm nominal clearance are manufactured and tested. Test results indicate that the vibration amplitude can be greatly reduced by diminishing the bearing clearance. When foil bearings with 22 μm clearance are used, the high-order harmonic frequencies of rotor vibration are significantly inhibited, and the amplitude of the rotating frequency is obviously restricted. Thus, the foil bearing with inhomogeneous bump foils tested in this paper can meet the speed requirement of the compressor when the nominal clearance is set at 22 μm.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 480-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sakata ◽  
T. Aiba ◽  
H. Ohnabe

In the field of rotor dynamics, increased attention is being given to the transient response analysis of the rotor, since the effects of impact loading and vibrations of the rotor arising from blade loss can be studied by a time transient solution of the rotor system. As recent trends in rotating machinery have been directed towards lightweight, high-speed flexible rotors, the effect of flexibility on transient response analysis is becoming of increasing importance. In the present paper, a transient vibration analysis is carried out on a flexible-disk/flexible-shaft system or rigid-disk flexible-shaft system subjected to a sudden imbalance that is assumed to represent the effect of blade loss. To solve the basic equation governing a rotating flexible disk the Galerkin’s method is used, and the equation of motion of the rotor system is numerically solved by employing the Runge-Kutta-Gill’s method. Experiments were conducted on a model rotor having a blade loss simulator; the shaft vibrations were also measured. The validity of the anaytical results was demonstrated by comparison with the experimental results.


Author(s):  
Joseph Shibu Kalloor ◽  
Ch. Kanna Babu ◽  
Girish K. Degaonkar ◽  
K. Shankar

A comprehensive multi-objective optimisation methodology is presented and applied to a practical aero engine rotor system. A variant of Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA) is employed to simultaneously minimise the weight and unbalance response of the rotor system with restriction imposed on critical speed. Rayleigh beam is used in Finite Element Method (FEM) implemented in-house developed MATLAB code for analysis. The results of practical interest are achieved through bearing-pedestal model and eigenvalue based Rayleigh damping model. Pareto optimal solutions generated and best solution selected with the help of response surface approximation of the Pareto optimal front. The outcome of the paper is a minimum weight and minimum unbalance response rotor system which satisfied the critical speed constraints.


Author(s):  
James F. Walton ◽  
Michael R. Martin

Abstract Results of a program to investigate internal rotor friction destabilizing effects are presented. Internal-friction-producing joints were shown to excite the rotor system first natural frequency, when operating either below or above the first critical speed. The analytical models used to predict the subsynchronous instability were also confirmed. The axial spline joint demonstrated the most severe subsynchronous instability. The interference fit joint also caused subsynchronous vibrations at the first natural frequency but these were bounded and generally smaller than the synchronous vibrations. Comparison of data from the two test joints showed that supersynchronous vibration amplitudes at the first natural frequency were generally larger for the interference fit joint than for the axial spline joint. The effects of changes in imbalance levels and side loads were not distinguishable during testing because amplitude-limiting bumpers were required to restrict orbits.


Author(s):  
Yang Yongfeng ◽  
Wang Jianjun ◽  
Wang Yanlin ◽  
Fu Chao ◽  
Zheng Qingyang ◽  
...  

In this paper, we considered a dual-rotor system with crack in shaft. The influence of circular crack in hollow shaft on dynamical response was studied. The equations of motion of 12 elements dual-rotor system model were derived. Harmonic balance method was employed to solve the equations. The critical speed and sub-critical speed responses were investigated. It was found that the circular crack in hollow shaft had greater influence on the first-backward critical speed than the first-forward critical speed. Owing to the influence of crack, the vibration peaks occurred at the 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 critical speeds of the rotor system, along with a reduction in sub-critical speeds and critical speeds. The deeper crack away from the bearing affected the rotor more significantly. The whirling orbits, the time-domain responses and the spectra were obtained to show the super-harmonic resonance phenomenon in hollow-shaft cracked rotor system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hao Deng ◽  
Xi Fang ◽  
Huachun Wu ◽  
Yiming Ding ◽  
Jinghu Yu ◽  
...  

In view of the numerical instability and low accuracy of the traditional transfer matrix method in solving the high-order critical speed of the rotor system, a new idea of incorporating the finite element method into the transfer matrix is proposed. Based on the variational principle, the transfer symplectic matrix of gyro rotors suitable for all kinds of boundary conditions and supporting conditions under the Hamilton system is derived by introducing dual variables. To verify the proposed method in rotor critical speed, a numerical analysis is adopted. The simulation experiment results show that, in the calculation of high-order critical speed, especially when exceeding the sixth critical speed, the numerical accuracy of the transfer symplectic matrix method is obviously better than that of the reference method. The relative errors between the numerical solution and the exact solution are 0.0347% and 0.2228%, respectively, at the sixth critical speed. The numerical example indicates the feasibility and superiority of the method, which provides the basis for the optimal design of the rotor system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 02011
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdelrhman ◽  
M. Salman Leong ◽  
Y.H. Ali ◽  
Iftikhar Ahmad ◽  
Christina G. Georgantopoulou ◽  
...  

This paper studies the diagnosis of twisted blade in a multi stages rotor system using adapted wavelet transform and casing vibration. The common detection method (FFT) is effective only if sever blade faults occurred while the minor faults usually remain undetected. Wavelet analysis as alternative technique is still unable to fulfill the fault detection and diagnosis accurately due to its inadequate time-frequency resolution. In this paper, wavelet is adapted and its time-frequency is improved. Experimental study was undertaken to simulate multi stages rotor system. Results showed that the adapted wavelet analysis is effective in twisted blade diagnosis compared to the conventional one.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liao Mingfu ◽  
Song Mingbo ◽  
Wang Siji

The basic operation principle of elastic support/dry friction damper in rotor system was introduced and the unbalance response of the rotor with elastic support/dry friction damper was analyzed theoretically. Based on the previous structure using an electromagnet as actuator, an active elastic support/dry friction damper using piezoelectric ceramic actuator was designed and its effectiveness of reducing rotor vibration when rotor traverses its critical speed and blade-out event happened was experimentally verified. The experimental results show that the active elastic support/dry friction damper with piezoelectric ceramic actuator can significantly reduce vibration in rotor system; the vibration amplitude of the rotor in critical speed region decreased more than 2 times, and the active damper can protect the rotor when a blade-out event happened, so the rotor can traverse the critical speed and shut down smoothly. In addition, the structure is much simpler than the previous, the weight was reduced by half and the power consumption was only 5 W.


Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1336
Author(s):  
Wei Fan ◽  
Hong Lu ◽  
Yongquan Zhang ◽  
Xiangang Su

The dynamic vibration of the gear coupling-rotor system (GCRS) caused by misalignment is an important factor of low frequency vibration and noise radiation of the naval marine. The axial misalignment of gear coupling is inevitable owing to mass eccentricity, and is unconstrained in axial direction at high-speed operation. Therefore, the dynamic model of GCRS is proposed, considering gear-coupling misalignment and contact force in this paper. The whole motion differential equation of GCRS is established based on the finite element method. Moreover, the numerical calculation method of meshing force, considering the uniform distribution load on contact surface, is presented, and the mathematical predictive time–frequency characteristics are analyzed by the Newmark stepwise integral approach. Finally, a reduced-scale application of the propulsion shaft system is utilized to validate the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic model. For the sensibility to low-frequency vibration, the natural frequencies and vibration modes of GCRS are analyzed through the processing and analysis of acceleration signal. The experimental dynamic response and main components of vibration are respectively consistent with mathematical results, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic model of GCRS with misalignment. Furthermore, it also shows that the proposed finite element analysis and calculation method are suitable for complex shafting, providing a novel thought for dynamic analysis of the propeller–shaft–hull coupled system of marine.


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