scholarly journals Experimental Measurements of the Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Rotating Disk-Blades-Disk Assemblies from the Stationary Frame

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3864
Author(s):  
Alexandre Presas ◽  
David Valentin ◽  
Carme Valero ◽  
Monica Egusquiza ◽  
Eduard Egusquiza

Determining the natural frequencies and mode shapes of rotating turbomachinery components from both rotating and stationary reference frames is of paramount importance to avoid resonance problems that could affect the normal operation of the machine, or even cause critical damages in these components. Due to their similarity to real engineering cases, this topic has been experimentally analyzed in the past for disk-shaft assemblies and rotor disk-blades assemblies (bladed-disk or blisk). The same topic is less analyzed for disk-blades-disk assemblies, although such configurations are widely used in centrifugal closed impellers of compressors, hydraulic pumps, pump-turbines, and runners of high head Francis turbines. In this paper, experimental measurements, varying the rotating speed of a disk-blade-disk assembly and exciting the first natural frequencies of the rotating frame, have been performed. The rotating structure is excited and measured by means of PZT patches from the rotating frame and with a Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV). In order to interpret the experimental results obtained from the stationary frame, a method to decompose the diametrical mode shapes of the structure in simple diametrical components (which define the diametrical mode shapes of a simple disk) has been proposed. It is concluded that the resonant frequencies detected with a stationary sensor correspond to the ones predicted with the decomposition method. Finally, a means to obtain equivalent results with numerical simulation methods is shown.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 453
Author(s):  
Ján Ďungel ◽  
Peter Zvolenský ◽  
Juraj Grenčík ◽  
Lukáš Leštinský ◽  
Ján Krivda

Noise generated by railway wagons in operation is produced by large numbers of noise sources. Although the railway transport is considered to be environmental friendly, especially in production of CO2 emissions, noise is one of problems that should be solved to keep the railway transport competitive and sustainable in future. In the EU, there is a strong permanent legislation pressure on interior and exterior noise reduction in railway transport. In the last years in Slovakia, besides modernization of existing passenger wagons fleet as a cheaper option of transport quality improvement, quite a number of coaches have been newly manufactured, too. The new design is usually aimed at increased speed, higher travel comfort, in which reduction of noise levels is expected. However, not always the new designs meet all expectations. Noise generation and propagation is a complex system and should be treated such from the beginning. There are possibilities to simulate the structural natural frequencies to predict vibrations and sound generated by these vibrations. However, the real picture about sound fields can be obtained only by practical measurements. Simulations of the wagon’s natural frequencies and mode shapes and measurements in real operation using a digital acoustic camera Soundcam have been done, which showed that for the calculated speeds the largest share of noise from the chassis was not radiated through the floor of the wagon, as was expected, but through the ceiling of the wagon. To improve the acoustic properties of the wagon at higher speed, it was proposed to use high-volume textile insulation in the ceiling of the wagon. The paper briefly presents modern research approaches in the search for ways to reduce internal noise in selected wagons used in normal operation on the Slovak railways.


Author(s):  
H R Hamidzadeh

An analytical method is adopted to determine modal characteristics of non-linear spinning discs. The disc is assumed to be isotropic and rotating under steady-state conditions. The effects of amplitude and rotating speed on natural frequencies are determined. The developed procedure is also capable of analysing natural frequencies of linear free vibration, which is independent of amplitude. Attention is confined to determine natural frequencies, mode shapes, stress distributions, and critical speeds for different numbers of nodal diameters. The developed procedure does not consider modes of vibration corresponding to nodal circles. Validity of this procedure is verified by comparing some of the computed results with those established for certain cases.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Yang ◽  
Yu Fu ◽  
Jianmin Yuan ◽  
Min Guo ◽  
Keyu Yan ◽  
...  

The vibration-based damage identification method extracts the damage location and severity information from the change of modal properties, such as natural frequency and mode shape. Its performance and accuracy depends on the measurement precision. Laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) provides a noncontact vibration measurement of high quality, but usually it can only do sampling on a single point. Scanning LDV is normally used to obtain the mode shape with a longer scanning time. In this paper, a damage detection technique is proposed using a self-synchronizing multipoint LDV. Multiple laser beams with various frequency shifts are projected on different points of the object, reflected and interfered with a common reference beam. The interference signal containing synchronized temporal vibration information of multiple spatial points is captured by a single photodetector and can be retrieved in a very short period. Experiments are conducted to measure the natural frequencies and mode shapes of pre- and postcrack cantilever beams. Mode shape curvature is calculated by numerical interpolation and windowed Fourier analysis. The results show that the artificial crack can be identified precisely from the change of natural frequencies and the difference of mode shape curvature squares.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 984-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Y. Tsay ◽  
Jin-Hui Ouyang ◽  
C.-P. Roger Ku ◽  
I. Y. Shen ◽  
David Kuo

This paper studies natural frequencies and mode shapes of a glide head with a piezoelectric transducer (PZT) through calibrated experiments and a finite element analysis. In the experiments, the PZT transducer served as an actuator exciting the glide head from 100 kHz to 1.3 MHz, and a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) measured displacement of the glide head at the inner or outer rail. The natural frequencies were measured through PZT impedance and frequency response functions from PZT to LDV. In the finite element analysis, the glide head was meshed by brick elements. The finite element results show that there are two types of vibration modes: slider modes and PZT modes. Only the slider modes are important to glide head applications. Moreover, natural frequencies predicted from the finite element analysis agree well with the experimental results within 5% of error. Finally, the finite element analysis identifies four critical slider dimensions whose tolerance will significantly vary the natural frequencies: PZT bonding length, wing thickness, slider thickness, and air bearing recess depth.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramazan-Ali Jafari-Talookolaei

In this paper, the free vibration of rotating laminated composite beams (LCBs) with general lay-ups and single through-the-width delamination is analytically investigated. The Hamilton’s principle is used to derive the coupled governing differential equations and boundary conditions for the rotating delaminated beam, considering the effects of shear deformation, rotary inertia, material couplings (bending–tension, bending–twist and tension–twist couplings), and Poisson’s effect. Both the free mode and constrained mode assumptions are adopted. Analytical solution for the natural frequencies and mode shapes are presented by incorporating the constraint conditions using the Lagrange multipliers method. The accuracy is assured by the convergence of the natural frequencies, as well as by comparison with published results. The effects of various factors such as delamination parameter, fiber angle, hub radius, material anisotropy, end mass and rotating speed are studied in detail. The difference between the results based on the free mode and constrained mode assumptions is also investigated.


2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.B. Stanbridge ◽  
D.J. Ewins ◽  
A.Z. Khan

If a laser Doppler vibrometer is used in a continuously-scanning mode to measure the response of a vibrating structure, its output spectrum contains side-bands from which the response mode shape, as defined along the scan line, may be obtained. With impact excitation, the response is the summation of a set of exponentially-decaying sinusoids which, in the frequency domain, has peaks at the natural frequencies and at `sideband' pseudo-natural frequencies, spaced at multiples of the scan frequency. Techniques are described for deriving natural mode shapes from these, using standard modal analysis procedures. Some limitations as to the types of mode which can be analysed are described. The process is simple and speedy, even when compared with a normal point-by-point impact test survey. Information may also be derived, using a circular scan, on the direction of vibration, and angular vibration, at individual points.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60-61 ◽  
pp. 547-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Presas ◽  
David Valentin ◽  
Eduard Egusquiza ◽  
Carme Valero ◽  
Ulrich Seidel

Author(s):  
Emanuel Pesatori ◽  
Giorgio Turozzi ◽  
Paolo Pennacchi ◽  
Alessandro Tosi

The dynamical phenomena involving a Pelton runner during normal operation are getting more and more of concern in the design of such kind of turbines. In fact, the increasing of the performance required by the market imposes runner designs that can become critical from a structural point of view. Each bucket is subjected to a certain number of impulses per revolution corresponding to the number of nozzles. This high frequency load could lead to a strong dynamic response of the runner if some kind of resonance takes place. For these reasons, an accurate modal analysis is to be performed before the runner realization, in order to avoid any crack arising during operation. This paper describes how a new, high performance profiled Pelton runner was modeled and dynamically calculated by FEM code ANSYS in order to obtain its natural frequencies and mode shapes. Subsequently, the modal behavior of the runner was experimentally investigated by means of an impulse test on field. The natural frequencies were got by examinating the FFT of the response and the mode shapes were reconstructed according to the stored signals of the accelerometers. The match between the experimental and numerical data was pretty good.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 1450049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Norouzi ◽  
Davood Younesian

Forced vibration of a rotating disk subjected to a stationary transverse load is studied in this paper. Time and frequency responses are obtained and effects of the rotating speed on the natural frequencies are evaluated. Finite element method (FEM) is employed as the solution technique and natural frequencies are obtained for different speeds. Forced vibration is then considered and disk responses are determined using the Galerkin method. The solution is determined in two different coordinate systems. In the first one, the disk is assumed to be rotating in an inertial coordinate system, while in the second coordinate system, a rotating peripheral force is applied on a stationary disk. The objective here in this paper is to compare the two modeling scenarios and is to find limiting range of the rotational speed for employing the stationary coordinate system.


Author(s):  
Ling Ling Yin ◽  
King Him Lo ◽  
Su Su Wang

In this paper, a study is conducted on wind and metocean loads and associated structural dynamics of a 13.2-MW large offshore wind turbine in Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) shallow water. The offshore wind turbine considered includes a rotor with three 100-meter long blades and a mono-tower support structure. Natural frequencies and mode shapes of the blades and the mono-tower are determined first and used subsequently to establish a Campbell diagram for safe wind turbine operation. The results show that hydrodynamic added mass has little effect on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the support structure but it introduces, in part, appreciable effects on loads carried by the turbine when the blades are pitched at wind speeds above the rated speed. Also determined, for normal operation and extreme metocean conditions (i.e., 100-year return hurricanes), are normal thrust on the wind rotor, blade-tip displacement, overturning moment and tower-top displacement sustained by the wind turbine.


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