Nonlinear Dynamics of a Blade Rotor with Coupled Rubbing of Labyrinth Seal and Tip Seal

The dynamic response and its stability of a blade rotor with coupled rubbing in the labyrinth seal and tip seal are investigated. The dynamic equations are established based on the Hertz contact rubbing force at the labyrinth seal and the tip rubbing force considering both the contact deformation of the tip seal and the bending deformation of the blade. Numerical simulations show that the coupled rubbing response includes periodic motions, almost periodic motions, and chaotic motions. Compared with the single rubbing fault, coupled rubbing increases the range of rotation velocity of contact. A new continuation shooting method is used in the solution and stability analysis of the periodic response to give the bifurcation diagrams. The paths of the system for entering and exiting chaos are analyzed.

Sequential Periodic Motions in a Vibration-Assisted, Regenerative, Nonlinear Turning-Tool System

This paper studies the dynamics and bifurcations of a vibration-assisted, regenerative, nonlinear turning-tool system using an implicit mapping method. Machine vibration has been studied for a century for the improvement of machine accuracy and metal removal rate. In fact, this problem is unsolved yet. This is because such dynamical systems are involved in nonlinearity, discontinuity and time-delay. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of nonlinear machining dynamics with time-delay is indispensable. In this paper, period-[Formula: see text] motions in the turning machine-tool system are studied through specific mapping structures, and the corresponding stability and bifurcations of the period-[Formula: see text] motion are determined through the eigenvalue analysis. The analytical bifurcation scenarios for two sets of sequential period-[Formula: see text] motions in a turning-tool system are presented. Numerical simulations of period-[Formula: see text] motions are carried out to verify the prediction of periodic motions. The complex dynamics of vibration-assisted machining with strong nonlinearity are presented, which can provide a good overview for nonlinear dynamics of machine-tool systems.

Morse Theory for S-balanced Configurations in the Newtonian n-body Problem

For the Newtonian (gravitational) n-body problem in the Euclidean d-dimensional space, the simplest possible solutions are provided by those rigid motions (homographic solutions) in which each body moves along a Keplerian orbit and the configuration of the n-body is a (constant up to rotations and scalings) central configuration. For $$d\le 3$$ d ≤ 3 , the only possible homographic motions are those given by central configurations. For $$d \ge 4$$ d ≥ 4 instead, new possibilities arise due to the higher complexity of the orthogonal group $$\mathrm {O}(d)$$ O ( d ) , as observed by Albouy and Chenciner (Invent Math 131(1):151–184, 1998). For instance, in $$\mathbb {R}^4$$ R 4 it is possible to rotate in two mutually orthogonal planes with different angular velocities. This produces a new balance between gravitational forces and centrifugal forces providing new periodic and quasi-periodic motions. So, for $$d\ge 4$$ d ≥ 4 there is a wider class of S-balanced configurations (containing the central ones) providing simple solutions of the n-body problem, which can be characterized as well through critical point theory. In this paper, we first provide a lower bound on the number of balanced (non-central) configurations in $$\mathbb {R}^d$$ R d , for arbitrary $$d\ge 4$$ d ≥ 4 , and establish a version of the $$45^\circ $$ 45 ∘ -theorem for balanced configurations, thus answering some of the questions raised in Moeckel (Central configurations, 2014). Also, a careful study of the asymptotics of the coefficients of the Poincaré polynomial of the collision free configuration sphere will enable us to derive some rather unexpected qualitative consequences on the count of S-balanced configurations. In the last part of the paper, we focus on the case $$d=4$$ d = 4 and provide a lower bound on the number of periodic and quasi-periodic motions of the gravitational n-body problem which improves a previous celebrated result of McCord (Ergodic Theory Dyn Syst 16:1059–1070, 1996).