Auto-balancing of a rotor with an orthotropic elastic shaft

The self-balancing of a statically unbalanced orthotropic elastic rotor equipped with a ball auto-balancing device is investigated. Equations of motion in fixed and rotating systems of coordinates, as well as equations describing steady motions of the regular precession type, are derived using a simple model of a Jeffcott rotor. Formulae for calculating the amplitude-frequency and phase-frequency characteristics of the precessional motion of the rotor are obtained. It is established that the conditions for a steady balanced mode of motion for an orthotropic rotor to exist have the same form as for an isotropic rotor, but the stability region of such a mode for an orthotropic rotor is narrower than the stability region for an isotropic rotor. The unsteady modes of motion of the rotor in the case of rotation with constant angular velocity and in the case of passage through critical velocities with constant angular acceleration is investigated numerically. It is established that the mode of slow passage through the critical region for an orthotropic rotor is far more dangerous than the similar mode for an isotropic rotor.     

Non-stationary analysis of a rotating shaft with geometrical nonlinearity during passage through critical speeds

In this paper, analysis of a rotating shaft with stretching nonlinearity during passage through critical speeds is investigated. In the model, the rotary inertia and gyroscopic effects are included, but shear deformation is neglected. The nonlinearity is due to large deflection of the shaft. First, nonlinear equations of motion governing the flexural–flexural–extensional vibrations of the rotating shaft with non-constant spin are derived by the Hamilton principle. Then, the equations are simplified using stretching assumption. To analyze the non-stationary vibration of the rotating shaft, the asymptotic method is applied to the equations expressed in normal coordinates. Two analytical expressions, as function of system parameters that describe the amplitude and phase of motion during passage through critical speeds are derived. The effects of angular acceleration, stretching nonlinearity, eccentricity and external damping on maximum amplitude of the shaft are investigated. It is shown that the nonlinearity has important effect on maximum amplitude when the rotating shaft passing through critical speeds, especially in low angular acceleration. To validate the results of the perturbation method, numerical simulation is applied.     

带有涡动的裂纹转子故障特征研究

分析了裂纹轴转子系统在考虑涡动时的非线性动力学行为,并与忽略涡动时的裂纹轴进行了对比,发现二者在周期分岔特性、振幅特性、轴心轨迹和庞卡莱图等方面均存在明显差异。从而可以看出在考虑非线性涡动时,裂纹轴会出现复杂的动力学行为。所得结论对于早期发现和诊断裂纹故障有一定参考价值。     

Methode zur Bestimmung von Dämpfungsgrössen in Transonic- und Überschallkanälen

Summary Test difficulties obviate the application of the methods for the determination of damping coefficients of wind tunnel models normally used, namely dying-out tests or tests with constrained oscillation respectively.To prevent these difficulties the rotor method has been developed and successfully tested in a transonic wind tunnel.With this method the model carries out an oscillation with constant amplitude, which consumes the energy of a rotor wheel. The damping quantity can be determined by measuring the oscillation frequency as a function of time without influence of the oscillation. By running a test without model but with an equivalent mass, damping and frictional components can be separated.     

Principal resonance responses of SDOF systems with small fractional derivative damping under narrow-band random parametric excitation

The principal resonance responses of nonlinear single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems with lightly fractional derivative damping of order α (0 < α < 1) subject to the narrow-band random parametric excitation are investigated. The method of multiple scales is developed to derive two first order stochastic differential equation of amplitude and phase, and then to examine the influences of fractional order and intensity of random excitation on the first-order and second-order moment. As an example, the stochastic Duffing oscillator with fractional derivative damping is considered. The effects of detuning frequency parameter, the intensity of random excitation and the fractional order derivative damping on stability are studied through the largest Lyapunov exponent. The corresponding theoretical results are well verified through direct numerical simulations. In addition, the phenomenon of stochastic jump is analyzed for parametric principal resonance responses via finite differential method. The stochastic jump phenomena indicates that the most probable motion is around the larger non-trivial branch of the amplitude response when the intensity of excitation is very small, and the probable motion of amplitude responses will move from the larger non-trivial branch to trivial branch with the increasing of the intensity of excitation. Such stochastic jump can be considered as bifurcation.     

Bifurcation and resonance induced by fractional-order damping and time delay feedback in a Duffing system

We develop an analytical technique to investigate the phenomenon of vibrational resonance in a fractional-order Duffing system with linear time delay feedback and driven by both low frequency and high frequency periodic signals. At first, the theoretical predication of the response amplitude at the low-frequency is obtained by the method of direct separation of slow and fast motions. Then, the bifurcation analysis is carried out based on three kinds of resonance behaviors. Further, influences of the high frequency signal, the fractional-order damping and the delay parameter on the vibrational resonance are discussed by both theoretical and numerical simulations. If the value of the fractional-order is a controllable parameter, the monotonicity of the response amplitude versus the value of the fractional-order depends on the amplitude of the high-frequency signal. If the delay parameter is a controllable parameter, the response amplitude with respect to the delay parameter presents periodic or quasi-periodic pattern, and it is similar to that in the integer-order differential system with linear time delay feedback. The good agreement between the analytical and numerical results indicates the validity of the theoretical predications.     

Transient amplification of maximum vibration amplitudes

Many low damped structures as turbine blades or drill strings are exposed to high dynamical loads causing high vibration amplitudes. These applications comprise sub-critical eigenfrequencies. Hereby, the lower eigenfrequencies have to be passed before reaching the operating point. Most investigations of vibration amplitudes caused by a resonance passage deal with the computation of single degree of freedom systems. Thereby, it has been shown that the stationary vibration response provides the highest possible amplitude. Further it can be stated that the maximum vibration response of the resonance passage decreases with an increasing sweep velocity [3]. Isolated modes of linear systems can be represented by single degree of freedom systems. Subsequently a mode shape can be described by the multiplication of the amplification function of the mode and the belonging eigenvector. There are only some recent works that deal with resonance passages of vicinal modes, e. g. [1]. In this paper the resonance passage of a three dimensional system with nearby modes is studied. To calculate the transient vibration response an analytical approach is used. It is shown that the maximum amplitude of the stationary vibration response is not the upper limit for the maximum amplitude of the resonance passage. Thus, the maximum amplitude may rise while the sweep velocity increases. Hence, regarding a multi degree of freedom system the maximum amplitude of the resonance passage can exceed the maximum amplitude of the stationary vibration response. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Application of CFRP as a rotor shaft material

Conclusions Theoretical analysis and tests performed on rotors with composite shaft show that there is a sufficiently wide rotation stability region in the rotor parameter space despite comparatively high damping of a polymeric composite with respect to steel. Optimum parameters of the shaft (lay-up, thickness) and bearing (radial stiffness, damping) can be found within this region for each given rotor ensuring a low vibration level at critical frequencies.If rotor system parameters are far enough from the instability threshold, maximum vibration level is observed when rotor passes the first eigenfrequency zone. Further increase of rotation frequency leads to a rotor self-centering, and vibration level does not change passing the second eigenfrequency zone. The rotor response is not sensitive to small changes in rotor system parameters. If rotor system parameters are close to the instability threshold, vibration level at the second eigenfrequency dominates, and a small variation of bearing parameters causes significant changes in the vibration level.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 227–240, March–April, 1995.     

迷宫密封不平衡转子动力系统的稳定性与分岔

研究迷宫密封对不平衡转子系统动力稳定性的影响.存在不平衡量的转子在旋转过程中受到周期激励,低转速时,转子作与激励同频率的周期运动,随着转速的提高,达到一定阈值时周期运动开始失稳.对迷宫密封的气动力采用Muszynska非线性力学模型,用打靶法求解转子运动周期解,并根据Floquet理论分析了周期解的稳定性及失稳后的动力学特性.     

Stability of a rotating ball

Influece of form errors of a chamber filled with a liquid on the movement and stability of a ball, rotating in the chamber, is studied. Two cases of the influence of the chamber form errors on the forces, acting on the ball, are defined. The first case describes the situation when limitations on the rotor shift are not imposed and disturbances of the chamber form are set by spherical harmonics not above the first order. In the second case disturbance of a chamber form is arbitrary and the rotor shift is supposed small. A rising here diflective moment tends to direct the angular speed vector along the small semiaxis of the ellipsoid, i.e., a stable position of the rotor appears.     

飞行器内裂纹转子系统的非线性动力学特性研究

在Jeffcott转子的开闭裂纹及方波模型基础上,建立了飞行器内裂纹转子系统的运动模型．数值研究表明:当飞行器以不同的等速度飞行时,转子轴与水平面之间夹角的变化将造成重力分量的变化,从而使转子运动在周期解、拟周期或浑沌状态之间变化,而且出现非线性现象的转速比、刚度变化比等参数的范围、进入和退出浑沌的路径、响应中的频率成份也会发生变化．飞行器的飞行速度变化还会改变裂纹转子响应的稳定性．飞行器等速飞行后的加速过程将引起转子振幅的突升及其后的下降,而且会使裂纹转子系统响应可能在不同的非线性状态下交替改变．     

Active vibration control of unbalanced flexible rotor–shaft systems parametrically excited due to base motion

Rotor vibrations caused by large time-varying base motion are of considerable importance as there are a good number of rotors, e.g., the ship and aircraft turbine rotors, which are often subject to excitations, as the rotor base, i.e. the vehicle, undergoes large time varying linear and angular displacements as a result of different maneuvers. Due to such motions of the base, the equations of vibratory motion of a flexible rotor–shaft relative to the base (which forms a non-inertial reference frame) contains terms due to Coriolis effect as well as inertial excitations (generally asynchronous to rotor spin) generated by different system parameters. Such equations of motion are linear but time-varying in nature, invoking the possibility of parametric instability under certain frequency–amplitude combinations of the base motion. An investigation of active vibration control of an unbalanced rotor–shaft system on moving bases is attempted in this work with electromagnetic control force provided by an actuator consisting of four electromagnetic exciters, placed on the stator in a suitable plane around the rotor–shaft. The actuator does not levitate the rotor or facilitate any bearing action, which is provided by the conventional suspension system. The equations of motion of the rotor–shaft continuum are first written with respect to the non-inertial reference frame (the moving base in this case) including the effect of rotor internal damping. A conventional model for the electromagnetic exciter is used. Numerical simulations performed on the flexible rotor–shaft modelled using beam finite elements shows that the control action is successful in avoiding the parametric instability, postponing the instability due to internal material damping and reducing the rotor response relative to the rigid base significantly, with sufficiently low demand of control current in comparison with the bias current in the actuator coils.     

A nonlinear model for rotor-shaft joints of high speed rotor systems with internal damping

Viscous internal damping in joints of high speed rotor systems causes instabilities above a certain frequency of revolution. In the majority of cases a nonlinearity adjusts the stability margin towards higher frequencies. In this paper an analytical solution of a nonlinear four degrees of freedom rotor model with internal damping is proposed, which enables to clearly analyse the influence of shaft stiffness, connection stiffness, rotor mass and shaft mass. The steady state solution of the unbalance case and the stability boundaries are deduced analytically. The stabilizing effect of the nonlinearity is shown. The analytical solutions are in good agreement with numerical results obtained by FERAN, a rotor dynamic simulation tool. A model, representing the rotor–shaft connection with an o–ring has been analyzed by a hydro pulse rig. Beneath the linear way, two further approaches to describe the measured hysteresis, a cubic and a bilinear force law are shown in the paper. The different analytical and numerical results for the whole rotor system with these three approaches are compared. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

主被动阻尼层合板结构的自由振动和阻尼特性分析

给出了含主被动阻尼非对称复合材料层合板结构的振动微分方程;得到了在压电材料和高粘弹材料作主被动阻尼层情况下,简支层合板结构自由振动的自然频率和损失因子的解析解;分析了正逆向压电效应对自然频率和损失因子的影响     

Non-stationary nonlinear analysis of a composite rotating shaft passing through critical speed

In this paper, nonlinear non-stationary dynamics of a nonlinear composite shaft passing through critical speed is studied. The nonlinearity is due to the large amplitude of shaft vibration. The equations of motion are obtained by three-dimensional constitutive relationships of composite materials. The gyroscopic effect, rotary inertia and coupling caused by material anisotropy are considered but shear deformation is neglected. Without any simplification, axial-flexural-flexural-torsional equations of motion (EOM) for the elastic composite shaft with variable rotational speed are obtained. The approximate analytical method namely asymptotic method is applied to analyze the nonstationary behavior of the composite shaft with constant acceleration. First, the EOMs are discretized using one and two-term Galerkin method. Then, the resulted equations are transformed to normal coordinates. Finally, the asymptotic method is applied to equations described in normal coordinates. Analytical expressions governing the amplitude and phase of motion during passage through critical speeds are obtained. By comparing the results obtained from analytical solutions, it is shown that discretization by one mode is not enough due to the existence of coupling in the equations and at least two modes are necessary for this purpose. Effects of damping, eccentricity, initial angular velocity and fiber angle on response amplitude are investigated. For verification, the results of perturbation theory are compared with numerical simulations and it is shown that there is good agreement between both methods.     

On a martingale associated to generalized Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes and an application to finance

In this paper we study the two-dimensional joint distribution of the first passage time of a constant level by spectrally negative generalized Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes and their primitive stopped at this first passage time. By using martingales techniques, we show an explicit expression of the Laplace transform of the distribution in terms of new special functions. Finally, we give an application in finance which consists of computing the Laplace transform of the price of an European call option on the maximum on the yield in the generalized Vasicek model. The stable case is studied in more detail.     

Interaction of a Solitary Wave with an External Force Moving with Variable Speed

The interaction of a solitary wave with an external force moving with constant acceleration is studied within the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation. For the case of a weak isolated force an asymptotic model based on equations for the amplitude and position of the solitary wave is developed. Phase portraits for this asymptotic system are obtained analytically and numerically. Analysis has shown that an accelerated force of either sign can capture a solitary wave if the acceleration is less than a certain critical value, depending on the forcing amplitude (for the case of a constant force speed only a positive force can capture a solitary wave). Direct numerical simulation of the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation has confirmed the predictions of the asymptotic model. Also, it is shown numerically that the accelerated force can capture more than one solitary wave.     

Uniqueness in determining refractive indices by formally determined far-field data

We present two uniqueness results for the inverse problem of determining an index of refraction by the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement encoded into the scattering amplitude. The first one is a local uniqueness in determining a variable index of refraction by the fixed incident-direction scattering amplitude. The inverse problem is formally posed with such measurement data. The second one is a global uniqueness in determining a constant refractive index by a single far-field measurement. The arguments are based on the study of certain non-self-adjoint interior transmission eigenvalue problems.