Analytical formulation of the Jacobian matrix for non-linear calculation of the forced response of turbine blade assemblies with wedge friction dampers

A fundamental issue in turbomachinery design is the dynamical stress assessment of turbine blades. In order to reduce stress peaks in the turbine blades at engine orders corresponding to blade natural frequencies, friction dampers are employed. Blade response calculation requires the solution of a set of non-linear equations originated by the introduction of friction damping.

Such a set of non-linear equations is solved using the iterative numerical Newton–Raphson method. However, calculation of the Jacobian matrix of the system using classical numerical finite difference schemes makes frequency domain solver prohibitively expensive for structures with many contact points. Large computation time results from the evaluation of partial derivatives of the non-linear equations with respect to the displacements.

In this work a methodology to compute efficiently the Jacobian matrix of a dynamic system having wedge dampers is presented. It is exact and completely analytical.

The proposed methods have been successfully applied to a real intermediate pressure turbine (IPT) blade under cyclic symmetry boundary conditions with underplatform wedge dampers. Its implementation showed to be very effective, and allowed to achieve relevant time savings without loss of precision.     

A new method to determine viscosity of liquids using vibration principles

A new method for determining viscosity of liquids is examined. The method employs the principles of vibration and measures the viscous damping due to the motion of a liquid placed in a cylindrical tube. The apparatus and the test liquid are treated as a dynamic system and the measured mechanical impedances are used to calculate energy dissipation due to the viscous damping. The newly designed apparatus is able to generate shear deformations in the liquid without using moving solid surfaces. A harmonic varying force with a frequency close to the resonance frequency of the system is applied through a piston and the resulting velocities of the oscillations generated in the system are measured. Liquids with higher viscosities result in lower velocities due to the higher damping. Analytical equations are provided to relate the viscous damping of the dynamic system to the viscosity of the liquids. The viscosities obtained from the proposed method are in good agreement with the ones obtained from standard rotational viscometry using a cone and plate geometry.     

On damping coefficient due to phase transformation

The damping coefficient of capillary waves due to the evaporation-condensation process at the interface of the two phases of a fluid is evaluated. To highlight the mechanism of the effect of heat and mass transfer across the interface between regions of liquid and vapor, potential flow of incompressible fluids are assumed. Thus other mechanisms of damping are neglected. To fascilitate the analysis, the method of multiple-scale is employed in the analysis, even though the problem is linear.     

Some studies on rotors with polynomial type non-linear external and internal damping

Non-linear internal damping in rotating cylindrical shafts leads to isotropic non-linear circulatory and dissipative force fields. Orbital instability in such class of systems arises when the regenerative work due to circulatory forces exceeds the dissipative work done over an orbit. In this paper, stability condition for rotor shafts with polynomial type non-linear internal damping is derived and also it is shown that distortion of the critical orbit, which results in larger change in orbital path as compared to the change in enclosed area, may lead to stable orbit at normally unstable operating conditions. This principle is applied to stabilize a simple rotor with discontinuous stiffness characteristics, which come into effect on exceeding some threshold displacement of the rotor itself.     

土-结构相互作用体系合成模态阻尼比的振动台模型试验研究

本文籍振动台模型试验。研究了SSI体系的合成模态阻尼比问题。文中首先阐明了在SSI体系直接动力分析中应采用合成模态阻尼比的观点。研究了合成模态阻尼纟的实测确定方法。并在不同工况下，通过对模型不同部位测点的传递函数，基本频率，基本合成模态阻尼比等实测数据考虑，验证了SSI体系合成模态的存在性，合成模态阻尼比与相同应变下不考虑相互作用的单纯地基土体或刚性地基结构阻尼比的差异性及其在递增动力作用下的变化规律。     

电磁轴承系统的刚度阻尼特性分析

分析了电磁轴承系统的刚度阻尼特性与系统结构参数及其控制器频响特性之间的关系。给出了系统控制电流的相位对系统稳定性和刚度阻尼特性的影响。提出了电磁轴承系统的复阻尼概念，以及部分刚度阻尼特性指标的实际意义和计算方法。     

On the damping function of shear relaxation modulus for entangled polymers

Published data of the damping function of the shear relaxation modulus, h(), are reviewed. This is the ratio of the relaxation modulus measured at a finite magnitude of shear, , to that at the limit of = 0. Majority of the data are in accord with the universal function of the Doi-Edwards tube model theory, in which the damping or the decrease of h() is attributed to the contraction along the tube of extended polymer chains. The weaker damping seems to be attributed to 1) comb-branching such as in LDPE; 2) lack of entanglement in too short chains; 3) bimodal molecular weight distribution. However, a star-branching does not cause a deviation from the tube model theory and a broadness of molecular weight distribution is not a major origin of a weaker damping. A star-branched polystyrene with 15 arms exhibits no strain dependence: h() = 1. For highly entangled systems with more than 50 entanglement points per molecule, the strain dependence is stronger than that of the Doi-Edwards theory. This could be due to a slip or an instability of deformation in the material.     

卫星减振的试验研究

根据某卫星发射对减振性能的要求,本文提出在适配器与星箭界面之间安装整星隔振器并且在适配器表面粘贴约束阻尼层的减振方案。并且利用振动台分别对卫星减振系统施加垂向和横向的基础激励,测量卫星上关键位置处的加速度响应,比较减振前后其频率响应特性的变化,以验证卫星减振方案的减振性能。试验结果的对比分析验证了此卫星减振系统能够隔离卫星高频段的横向和垂向振动,降低卫星结构频率响应的幅值,能够减小运载火箭发射时传递给卫星的环境载荷,提高卫星发射的可靠性。本文对于相关的航天器的减振设计具有实用的参考价值。     

Flutter instability and other singularity phenomena in symmetric systems via combination of mass distribution and weak damping

The local dynamic instability of autonomous conservative, lumped-mass (discrete) systems, is thoroughly discussed when negligibly small dissipative forces are included. It is shown that such small forces may change drastically the response of these systems. Hence, existing, widely accepted, findings based on the omission of damping could not be valid if damping, being always present in actual systems, is included. More specifically the conditions under which the above systems may experience dynamic bifurcations associated either with a degenerate or a generic Hopf bifurcation are examined in detail by studying the effect of the structure of the damping matrix on the Jacobian eigenvalues. The case whereby this phenomenon may occur before divergence is discussed in connection with the individual or coupling effect of non-uniform mass and stiffness distribution. Jump phenomena in the critical dynamic loading at a certain mass distribution are also assessed. Numerical results verified by a non-linear dynamic analysis using 2-DOF and 3-DOF models confirm the validity of the theoretical findings as well as the efficiency of the technique proposed herein.     

Effect of Coulomb Damping on Buckling of a Two-Rod System

This paper describes a significant influence of a slight Coulomb damping on buckling, using a simple two rods system. Coulomb damping produces equilibrium regions around the well-known stable and unstable steady states under the pitchfork bifurcation which occurs in the case without Coulomb damping. Also, the stability of the states in the equilibrium regions is examined by using the phase portrait. As a consequence, due to the slight Coulomb damping, it is theoretically clarified that the states in the equilibrium regions are locally stable, even in the neighborhood of the unstable steady states under the pitchfork bifurcation in the case without Coulomb damping, i.e., even in the neighborhood of the unstable trivial steady states in the postbuckling and the unstable nontrivial steady states under the subcritical pitchfork bifurcation. Furthermore, the experimental results are in qualitative agreement with the theoretically predicted phenomena.